| Zkuq said: Regardless of what you think of Nvidia, that is NOT a healthy market. |
As long as AMD don't Intel/Xbox themselves over the next couple generations, I honestly think people are seeing the wrong side of things.
AMD have had their best gaming GPU launch in a long long time. Even though it was only a small step in the right direction, they've shown they at least know the right direction to move now.
Nvidia won't be giving a shit about gaming ever again, despite what some people still seem to believe. The ego of their CEO 'wanting to dominate' or whatever won't mean shit to shareholders considering the magnitude of their overall corporate value now. They will only be chasing the maximum possible value and trying to keep their stock rising as much as possible.
All that to say, the gaming space will be the easiest starting point for AMD and possibly Intel to start clawing back market share and mind share. People saying this terrible 50 series launch for Nvidia didn't make much of a dent aren't seeing the big picture. Sure, one terrible launch isn't enough to shake the foundation they created amongst gamers, but gamers aren't suckers that will just repeatedly take getting punched in the nuts generation after generation.
The more AMD gain in the gaming GPU space will then have the obvious flow-on effect for helping them advance their workstation/database tech and software, until eventually they or someone else can gain some parity with Nvidia in the future.
The market doesn't simply allow monopolies to run away with an unbeatable position when they show obvious disregard for their consumers and even national laws/security, not unless those monopolies have a lot of protection from the public sector.
