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ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
January 09 2010 09:05 GMT
#21
On January 09 2010 18:03 T.O.P. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2010 17:59 FragKrag wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:56 T.O.P. wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:55 FragKrag wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:47 T.O.P. wrote:
Even though Nvidia is losing marketshare, they still own a big part of the market. However, ATI's great lineup from the bottom to the top forced Nvidia to lower prices significantly and it's hurting Nvidia. It more expensive for Nvidia to manufacture GPUs compared to ATI. ATI's gpu die size is significantly smaller than Nvidia. ATI gpus still run faster than Nvidia gpus because of faster clock speeds and 2 gpus on a board technology. ATI is doing great because they sell gpus with a good profit margin. Nvidia sells gpus and loses money doing it.


i think you are in opposite land

explain


oh

I don't know. It's just that nvidia has been rebranding their cards for the last 4 years and making money off of them.

Have you ever heard of the 200 series TOP?

[image loading]


Yes, the 200 series is the reason why Nvidia is falling behind.

I don't think i get the focus of your post. That graph shows the market share of nVidia getting raped in 2008, which is when they released the gt200 series, which is when their market share started falling...
U Gotta Skate.
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
January 09 2010 09:06 GMT
#22
On January 09 2010 18:01 nttea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2010 17:56 T.O.P. wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:55 FragKrag wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:47 T.O.P. wrote:
Even though Nvidia is losing marketshare, they still own a big part of the market. However, ATI's great lineup from the bottom to the top forced Nvidia to lower prices significantly and it's hurting Nvidia. It more expensive for Nvidia to manufacture GPUs compared to ATI. ATI's gpu die size is significantly smaller than Nvidia. ATI gpus still run faster than Nvidia gpus because of faster clock speeds and 2 gpus on a board technology. ATI is doing great because they sell gpus with a good profit margin. Nvidia sells gpus and loses money doing it.


i think you are in opposite land

explain

i don't know for sure, but if ATI is like AMD in this case they are the one selling with a low profit margin, and nvidia is still earning money even though their graphic cards are performing worse per dollar, and losing market shares. it does make sense giving their respective positions too.

No, ATI is the one selling with the high profit margin because the die size of their gpu is small. Nvidia is selling with low profit margin because their die size is big. Die size big = high failure rate.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
January 09 2010 09:07 GMT
#23
On January 09 2010 18:05 ghermination wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2010 18:03 T.O.P. wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:59 FragKrag wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:56 T.O.P. wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:55 FragKrag wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:47 T.O.P. wrote:
Even though Nvidia is losing marketshare, they still own a big part of the market. However, ATI's great lineup from the bottom to the top forced Nvidia to lower prices significantly and it's hurting Nvidia. It more expensive for Nvidia to manufacture GPUs compared to ATI. ATI's gpu die size is significantly smaller than Nvidia. ATI gpus still run faster than Nvidia gpus because of faster clock speeds and 2 gpus on a board technology. ATI is doing great because they sell gpus with a good profit margin. Nvidia sells gpus and loses money doing it.


i think you are in opposite land

explain


oh

I don't know. It's just that nvidia has been rebranding their cards for the last 4 years and making money off of them.

Have you ever heard of the 200 series TOP?

[image loading]


Yes, the 200 series is the reason why Nvidia is falling behind.

That graph shows the market share of nVidia getting raped in 2008, which is when they released the gt200 series, which is when their market share started falling...

Exactly the point I wanted to make.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11554 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-09 09:09:44
January 09 2010 09:08 GMT
#24
it also houses 3 dual gpu cards whereas ATi releases like 1 dual gpu card per series

Nvidia makes up for the high cost of the process by inflating the cost of their GPUs.
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
January 09 2010 09:09 GMT
#25
On January 09 2010 18:06 T.O.P. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2010 18:01 nttea wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:56 T.O.P. wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:55 FragKrag wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:47 T.O.P. wrote:
Even though Nvidia is losing marketshare, they still own a big part of the market. However, ATI's great lineup from the bottom to the top forced Nvidia to lower prices significantly and it's hurting Nvidia. It more expensive for Nvidia to manufacture GPUs compared to ATI. ATI's gpu die size is significantly smaller than Nvidia. ATI gpus still run faster than Nvidia gpus because of faster clock speeds and 2 gpus on a board technology. ATI is doing great because they sell gpus with a good profit margin. Nvidia sells gpus and loses money doing it.


i think you are in opposite land

explain

i don't know for sure, but if ATI is like AMD in this case they are the one selling with a low profit margin, and nvidia is still earning money even though their graphic cards are performing worse per dollar, and losing market shares. it does make sense giving their respective positions too.

No, ATI is the one selling with the high profit margin because the die size of their gpu is small. Nvidia is selling with low profit margin because their die size is big. Die size big = high failure rate.

Not necessarily. For example, the gt200 which was and still is very large had around a 60% yield rate, which isn't the best but it's respectable. To put it in perspective, the rv770 and rv870 cores have both had around 70% yields. Cores that are damaged/faulty are often rebinned as lower performing cards, but the big problem for nvidia is that they can't get away with rebinning their gt300 cards because they're on an entirely new and untested process.
U Gotta Skate.
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
January 09 2010 09:11 GMT
#26
We don't even know how fermi's gonna be like. Talking about fermi is like talking about SC2. I was talking about how the 200 series is hurting nvidia.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-09 09:14:46
January 09 2010 09:14 GMT
#27
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3659

Here's a good article. But it's written on October 14th, 2009
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
January 09 2010 09:14 GMT
#28
On January 09 2010 18:11 T.O.P. wrote:
We don't even know how fermi's gonna be like. Talking about fermi is like talking about SC2. I was talking about how the 200 series is hurting nvidia.

I was responding to the part where you said "die size big = big failure rate."
Also:
I don't think we've seen the end of delays for fermi. I mean, even if they were to suddenly dump all of the cards that exist on the market, that would only be a couple hundred. At this rate how are they ever going to produce enough of them to make them below the cost of the Asus Mars gtx295? + Show Spoiler +
that's a really geeky joke but the mars was made with two GTX285's instead of two gtx260's, making it like $1000+
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Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
January 09 2010 09:16 GMT
#29
The 4xxx cards had a wayyy better price to performance compared to the expensive 200 series.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
Bill307
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada9103 Posts
January 09 2010 09:17 GMT
#30
Thanks for the informative post, ghermination.

Last I'd checked it was Intel + nVidia >> AMD + ATI. Glad things are evening up now.

I remember hearing something ~4 years ago about the limit of our current chip fabrication technology being about 45(?) nm, because anything smaller runs into serious problems, such as heat dissipation. I'm surprised nVidia would commit themselves to a smaller size without sufficiently testing it first. Then again, bad management knows no bounds. =P
Bill307
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada9103 Posts
January 09 2010 09:18 GMT
#31
On January 09 2010 18:06 T.O.P. wrote:
Die size big = high failure rate.

No, it's the opposite.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11554 Posts
January 09 2010 09:18 GMT
#32
Well Intel is still >>>> AMD

but atm ATi > nVidia.
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
January 09 2010 09:20 GMT
#33
On January 09 2010 18:17 Bill307 wrote:
Thanks for the informative post, ghermination.

Last I'd checked it was Intel + nVidia >> AMD + ATI. Glad things are evening up now.

I remember hearing something ~4 years ago about the limit of our current chip fabrication technology being about 45(?) nm, because anything smaller runs into serious problems, such as heat dissipation. I'm surprised nVidia would commit themselves to a smaller size without sufficiently testing it first. Then again, bad management knows no bounds. =P

Actually, the physical limit our technology can reach is 12nm. Samsung has even demonstrated a transistor fabricated at the 22nm process. While i'm no physicist, at that size we run into a problem called quantum tunneling. Although i don't fully understand the process, you can look it up on wikipedia if you're actually interested.
U Gotta Skate.
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
January 09 2010 09:20 GMT
#34
Maybe if the i7 prices go down, everyone just gets a Phenom II x4 and OCs it. Im still stuck with a e6420 @ stock speeds Damn old mobo!!!
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-09 09:22:55
January 09 2010 09:22 GMT
#35
On January 09 2010 18:18 FragKrag wrote:
Well Intel is still >>>> AMD

but atm ATi > nVidia.


The C2D and Q series are great, guess even the Quad is just too low for today's standards.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11554 Posts
January 09 2010 09:23 GMT
#36
you could always get like an E8400 or something.
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-09 09:26:48
January 09 2010 09:24 GMT
#37
On January 09 2010 18:22 Disregard wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2010 18:18 FragKrag wrote:
Well Intel is still >>>> AMD

but atm ATi > nVidia.


The C2D and Q series are great, guess even the Quad is just too low for today's standards.


Not necessarily.
The core architecture offers amazing performance, and if you look at the new 32nm i3 and i5's that were just released they have some pretty impressive clocks. I believe the best dual core i5 part is at 3.46ghz, and can easily be overclocked to 4.5+. New fabrication processes are amazing.

Also, they're fairly cheap. Once the 22nm hexa-core sandy bridge parts come out (~q1-q2 2011) we should see a huge price drop on the older i7 and i5 processors, considering intel will probably be abandoning lga 1155 at that time and will begin to phase out lga 1366 at that time (according to their roadmap and statements made at CES they plan to phase out lga 1366 by 2012)
U Gotta Skate.
zeroimagination
Profile Joined August 2009
18 Posts
January 09 2010 09:25 GMT
#38
On January 09 2010 18:24 ghermination wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2010 18:22 Disregard wrote:
On January 09 2010 18:18 FragKrag wrote:
Well Intel is still >>>> AMD

but atm ATi > nVidia.


The C2D and Q series are great, guess even the Quad is just too low for today's standards.


Not necessarily.
The core architecture offers amazing performance, and if you look at the new 32nm i3 and i5's that were just released they have some pretty impressive clocks. I believe the best dual core i5 part is at 3.46ghz, and can easily be overclocked to 4.5+. New fabrication processes are amazing.

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nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
January 09 2010 09:27 GMT
#39
On January 09 2010 18:06 T.O.P. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2010 18:01 nttea wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:56 T.O.P. wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:55 FragKrag wrote:
On January 09 2010 17:47 T.O.P. wrote:
Even though Nvidia is losing marketshare, they still own a big part of the market. However, ATI's great lineup from the bottom to the top forced Nvidia to lower prices significantly and it's hurting Nvidia. It more expensive for Nvidia to manufacture GPUs compared to ATI. ATI's gpu die size is significantly smaller than Nvidia. ATI gpus still run faster than Nvidia gpus because of faster clock speeds and 2 gpus on a board technology. ATI is doing great because they sell gpus with a good profit margin. Nvidia sells gpus and loses money doing it.


i think you are in opposite land

explain

i don't know for sure, but if ATI is like AMD in this case they are the one selling with a low profit margin, and nvidia is still earning money even though their graphic cards are performing worse per dollar, and losing market shares. it does make sense giving their respective positions too.

No, ATI is the one selling with the high profit margin because the die size of their gpu is small. Nvidia is selling with low profit margin because their die size is big. Die size big = high failure rate.

ok thanks! i shouldn't speak out about stuff i know jack shit about but then again it doesn't seem to stop anyone else around here (:
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-09 09:29:42
January 09 2010 09:29 GMT
#40
To be completely honest i've got my eye on the g9650. As soon as i get some spare cash i'm going to get me a sempron 140, and then one of those, and i plan on finally busting out dry ice, something i haven't done in years. I'm sure those 32nm/single core processors overclock amazingly well on c02

Edit: Smoking a bowl for ATI. Go red team!.
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