zarx said:
Intrinsic said:
No worries, we all make mistakes. But finally. Something I can agree with and yet some here are arguing with me like I am crazy or something. I have never said what they are managing to accomplish on the dedicated GPU front is poor. Not once, all I have been saying is that its still a niche market. Its a growing niche market, but a niche market none the less.
And i kept guessing their annual revenue caus ei was just extrapolating from one quater since i didnt want to dig in to the number research. But my estimates were even much higher than what they actually make. Cause I gave them $8B lol.
I will add though, when nvidia says GPUs in that report. They are not just talking about desktop GPUs. They are talking about discrete GPUs in general which a majority of goes into laptops and all in one PCs. A MAJORITY. So if they ship 65M GPUs, well over 55M of those are going to specific vendors to put into laptops or all in ones.
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Well I was never argueing that high end enthusiest PC wasn't niche, I was just pointing out evidence that shows it is growing not shrinking (becoming more niche) as the OP was suggesting. setting aside that high end enthusiest PC is a niche even inside PC gaming. You are the one who started arguing.
It should be noted that the rise of intergrated GPUs has basically killed Nvidia in the low end desktop and laptop markets. Nvidia have been largely forced upstream as the market for low end descrete GPUs drys up. Which makes Nvidia's growth all the more impressive. I mean Nvidia have a 51%+ market share on Steam yet a 16% marketshare across everything. High end gaming really is their bread and butter.
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I would guess they're doing fairly well with GPGPU and scientific computing. Everytime I look into molecular dynamics, they all use Nvidia GPUs and CUDA rather than OpenCL. Bit annoying for me with my HD 7870. I'm tempted to buy an Nvidia GPU next solely so I can use it for MD simulations (on top of some gaming 
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Basically, another niche but rapidly growing market.
