IMHO, people see AMD has a value GPU vendor and Nvidia as the non-value vendor,hence AMD cannot get away with the same pricing levels as Nvidia. Even if they had exactly the same products as Nvidia,they would have to price them lower. This is the impression I get!
I'm equally as critical of everything in life Cat, but the way I see it the Nvidiot does indeed and is alive and well. As much as I hate clichés I truly believe that Nvidiots do exist. Kind of like some sort of mythical beast.
And, they are the same sort as the Apple bunch, who also definitely exist. It just seems that certain companies have a way of peeing on people's backs and telling them it is raining.
What I mean by that is that certain companies can do no wrong. And even when they do there was a very good reason why they were doing it.
Corporations. They use all sorts of low down tricks and brain washing techniques, and some of them are good at it. Nvidia always were.
I had a ahem, discussion about it recently when we did the time warp back to 1999. Up until that point no one was interested in specs or what not, as we just liked seeing new things. Nvidia though? from the word go as soon as they set foot in the marketplace they started the flame wars and bad mouthing.
So whilst Nvidia were indeed supplying faster cards than 3DFX and they were capable of 100 FPS in Quake II and so on none of it really mattered. But, Nvidia made it matter and made people start to obsess over having the fastest even though it was completely unessential. Fact of the matter was a 4mb onboard or something like a Trident with a Voodoo card was more than adequate for maxing out games.
And, it hasn't changed much. Here we are ten years down the line being sold bottles of snake oil. The most successful DX version ever was of course DX9. But how much crap have we been mis sold since?
DX11. Wow, brand new technology that does tessellation !
Wooooow. Let's all load up a benchmark that uses it and then obsess over whose goes faster. Wooow, DX11 is great. But is it really great?
Well, many will not have seen this.
Why haven't they seen it? because at that time Nvidia and AMD did not need another reason to sell you a new GPU that would do all of the things they say. However, with DX11 tessellation became essential, and if you didn't have a DX11 card you smelled like wee.
Same goes for the lighting and shadows. When Dirt 2 came out it was quickly realised that near on all of the features it used could be ran with DX10 cards. The lighting, shading and so on were all unlockable and would all run perfectly fine on a DX10 card.
Now we are being fed more hyperbole and snakeoil.
It never ends.
