| vlad321 said: I think ATI put the fear in Nvidia by the looks of it. I was always wondering how they managed to fall behind ATI the way they did for a while there. I'm thinking that maybe they were serious about challenging intel? I dunno but this is extremely awesome. |
It's a fix-up of Fermi (new stepping). What it should have been a year ago really. It's nice that they're competitive now, but AMD has yet to show their competing part (Cayman). Hold off judgement until that is released.
AMD still holds the single-card crown and will extend that with dual-Cayman, and if Cayman is any good they will have the single-GPU lead and a perf/mm^2 and perf/watt lead. But Nvidia won't go bankrupt which is a good thing for consumers.
The next parts from both companies are key. They're 28nm, and Nvidia's taken a year and a half more than AMD to produce a viable 40nm part (4770 vs this), so can Nvidia actually execute on a new process node on time?
In any case Nvidia will take 6 months to roll out the 5xx series to the midrange and low end. AMD already has the midrange and low-end is Jan/Feb. That's where the volume and hence revenue is.
