| Soleron said: This is the effect of bumpgate finally leading OEMs to choose AMD GPUs (see Apple, no Nvidia in sight because of what they did). Nvidia's 5xx series is fully competitive with AMD's 6xxx series now, unlike the 200 - 400 series where AMD had large pricing freedom and Nvidia lost money on high end parts. disolitude is right too, Nvidia's focus on features has been a waste of money up to now. A faster GPU at every price is what gets sales, especially to OEMs where the bulk of the market is. It will be interesting to see who gets to 28nm first. Despite using the same foundry AMD had profitable 40nm parts a year and a half before Nvidia (4770 v 480, and I wouldn't even call the 480 profitable). @ssj12 AMD SLI won't make up more than 0.5% of the market given its rarity and AMD's own share. Anyone who really wants AMD SLI already hacked it to work or just bought Crossfire (since it scales better anyway). |
It wont be rare at all. All bulldozer chipsets will support crossfire and SLi..... And SLi hasn't been available for multiple chipsets from AMD. I know of many people who want an AMD CPU and 3x SLi Nvidia. Hell, half of Bit-tech.net will enjoy it.
