No. The days for that have long gone sadly.
It costs too much money and the competition is too fierce.
The only thing that IMO would work is if Nvidia reinstated the 3DFX branding and released GPUs that differ in core count and clock speed to their main Geforce models.
They could use the branding in either the low end or high end and IMO it would work.
But to design and manufacture a GPU costs millions. And then Nvidia would simply do what they've always done and talk crap about it and the mugs would believe every last word.
The only reason that Geforce cards became so popular was down to naming and marketing. Geforce sounds fast.
In reality though I thought that the TNT Riva II 16mb was slower and more buggy than the 3DFX Voodoo 3000 card. I also preferred the Voodoo 5500 to the Geforce II because again, it had better drivers and seemed smoother and less buggy.
The thing is, whilst every one was walking around saying that the Nvidia cards of the time were faster there was hardly any way to prove it. We didn't have FRAPS back then and we didn't have any synthetic benchmarks. Not in the mainstream any way, so Nvidia got away with an awful lot in the bullshine corner of the market.
Sadly it has been shown that we like buckets of Nvidia bullshine and will happily gorge ourselves on it until all of the sodium chloride causes us to have a heart attack.
It costs too much money and the competition is too fierce.
The only thing that IMO would work is if Nvidia reinstated the 3DFX branding and released GPUs that differ in core count and clock speed to their main Geforce models.
They could use the branding in either the low end or high end and IMO it would work.
But to design and manufacture a GPU costs millions. And then Nvidia would simply do what they've always done and talk crap about it and the mugs would believe every last word.
The only reason that Geforce cards became so popular was down to naming and marketing. Geforce sounds fast.
In reality though I thought that the TNT Riva II 16mb was slower and more buggy than the 3DFX Voodoo 3000 card. I also preferred the Voodoo 5500 to the Geforce II because again, it had better drivers and seemed smoother and less buggy.
The thing is, whilst every one was walking around saying that the Nvidia cards of the time were faster there was hardly any way to prove it. We didn't have FRAPS back then and we didn't have any synthetic benchmarks. Not in the mainstream any way, so Nvidia got away with an awful lot in the bullshine corner of the market.
Sadly it has been shown that we like buckets of Nvidia bullshine and will happily gorge ourselves on it until all of the sodium chloride causes us to have a heart attack.
They had a forray into desktop gfx years ago with their Kyro and KyroII graphics cards.
