AMD Board Approves Acquisition of ATI - What does this mean for PC gaming

Gimpymoo · 24 Jul 2006 at 11:46

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=3453

COWABUNGA !!!

Phil99 · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:07

What does this mean for PC gaming

Not a lot would be my answer...

DaveyD · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:09

That's rather interesting, and I think it should give some good performance hardware in the next couple of years with better CPU / GFX card integration, hopefully anyway, but it'll probably end up with minimal advantages in the end, AMD could on the other hand screw it all up. We'll have to wait and see.

I'm sure there's a hardware forum discussion about this that'll have a lot better idea of what we'll probably see in the future.

Cronox · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:12

Should be fairly interesting as typically Nvidia have worked very closely with AMD. Can’t really see that continuing in the future.

Doesn’t seem like a great move for ATI given had AMD are now a fair way behind in terms of performance, particularly in the gaming/hard core market where the huge margins are.

deko · 24 Jul 2006 at 13:20

Cronox said:
Should be fairly interesting as typically Nvidia have worked very closely with AMD. Can’t really see that continuing in the future.

Doesn’t seem like a great move for ATI given had AMD are now a fair way behind in terms of performance, particularly in the gaming/hard core market where the huge margins are.

its a bad move for AMD.. considering Nvidia work so closely with them, they might switch to working with intel and conroe, which with Core 2 Duo being as powerful as it is, and nforce 5 being as good as it is..

Mr Spoon · 24 Jul 2006 at 13:30

I prefer Nvidia myself, not sure why they'd want to take on ATI. :confused:

Zip · 24 Jul 2006 at 15:36

What If Nvidia go with Intel now :eek:

It will be a GFX-CPU show down :eek:

I would hate to think of what could happen then and the possible compatibility problems

gadget^ · 24 Jul 2006 at 15:46

nvr liked the amd drivers myself saying that not sure about the nex lay out of the nvida drivers old skool for me all the way

poltergeist666 · 24 Jul 2006 at 15:54

gadget^ said:
nvr liked the amd drivers myself saying that not sure about the nex lay out of the nvida drivers old skool for me all the way

English would be nice! :rolleyes:

xb8browney · 24 Jul 2006 at 16:10

Amd drivers :confused:

Zip · 24 Jul 2006 at 16:19

xb8browney said:
Amd drivers

He probably means that quiet and cool thing they did/do?

Sem · 24 Jul 2006 at 17:13

Zip said:
What If Nvidia go with Intel now

It will be a GFX-CPU show down

I would hate to think of what could happen then and the possible compatibility problems

if that happens

checkmate for AMD/ATI

SnipaMasta · 24 Jul 2006 at 17:20

Zip said:
What If Nvidia go with Intel now

It will be a GFX-CPU show down

If so, Intel and Nvidia, which are both leading in their fields, would win. Intel will always be the biggest producer of CPU's because they're the standard make known to general PC users, which are the larger market, and the Conroe has shown they can produce better CPU's for games too. As for NVIDIA, once again, more commonly known and their cards are just more popular.

Psyk · 24 Jul 2006 at 17:26

I think ATI vs Nvidia are more matched than AMD vs Intel in terms of market share. The majority of people recognise the Intel brand and so will get Intel based computers. Those people probably won't recognise either ATI or Nvidia so they won't care either way.

VeNT · 24 Jul 2006 at 17:35

I doubt this will stop Nvidia working with AMD on the chipset front, it would be foolish to eliminate that area of your market just because AMD own ATI.

Trifid · 24 Jul 2006 at 17:52

May as well post this, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5210276.stm

bbc said:
has agreed to buy rival ATI Technologies.

They dont have the same territory so not a rival. Noobs.

Phil99 · 24 Jul 2006 at 17:54

VeNT said:
I doubt this will stop Nvidia working with AMD on the chipset front, it would be foolish to eliminate that area of your market just because AMD own ATI.

Yup, nVidia are the clear leaders when it comes to AMD chipsets...do they want to give up market share to VIA/SiS/ATi or sell chipsets that will mean people buy a processor from a company that happens to be owned by it's main rival...I doubt they'd take either option if they had the choice, but carrying on as normal for them seems to be the best option.

Boogle · 24 Jul 2006 at 20:39

poltergeist666 said:
English would be nice!

nvr liked the amd drivers myself saying that not sure about the nex lay out of the nvida drivers old skool for me all the way

When put through the patented 'Boogle 13-15yr to Standard English Spectrometer' gives:

Never liked the ATI drivers myself. Saying that, I'm not sure about the new NVIDIA driver control panel. Old-school all the way for me.

Ozzie Dave · 24 Jul 2006 at 21:51

Interesting developments indeed.

Been a happy AMD/ATI user for a few years now but I'm no fanboy type tho. I just buy stuff that suits or is the best bang for buck at the time. As long as it means better hardware/competition in the long run I don't mind who takes over who tbh...

Edinho · 25 Jul 2006 at 09:51

Cronox said:
Should be fairly interesting as typically Nvidia have worked very closely with AMD. Can’t really see that continuing in the future.

Doesn’t seem like a great move for ATI given had AMD are now a fair way behind in terms of performance, particularly in the gaming/hard core market where the huge margins are.

Might be bigger margins. But there's no way that the gaming/hardcore market account for most of their profitability. Look at Dell.