nvidia and intel

[NoobieOCer]

i was wondering why don't nvidia let intel support sli in their chip sets? i thought intel owned nvidia.

 

[Ross1234]

I dont think they do. I could be mistaken.

 

[jaykay]

I think Intel own a very small portion of Nvidia. Less than 10% i expect. I may be wrong though.

Also they dont allow intel to support SLI, probably due to their chipsets being directly in competition to them.

 

[Janesy B]

What a bloody stupid thing to say. how can Intel own nvidia and have such a massive slagging match between the two companies. Plus intel have banned nvidia chipsets on the next gen boards. There was speculation of an Intel buyout a few years ago but that was just speculation.

 

[tutu]

i was wondering why don't nvidia let intel support sli in their chip sets?

Because then nobody would buy a nForce motherboard thus destroying one part of their business overnight!!

 

[Trunks9486]

Exactly. SLi is the one feature that makes nForce chipsets really attractive.

Anyway, if AMd does let nVIDIA produce chipsets for them, the AMD platform may become more competitve... Especially if AMD locks Crossfire into their own platforms.

Intel without Dual GPU support would look a lot less attractive to many people.

 

[kylew]

Exactly. SLi is the one feature that makes nForce chipsets really attractive.

Anyway, if AMd does let nVIDIA produce chipsets for them, the AMD platform may become more competitve... Especially if AMD locks Crossfire into their own platforms.

Intel without Dual GPU support would look a lot less attractive to many people.

NV does make chipsets for AMD CPUs.

 

[BubbySoup]

Exactly. SLi is the one feature that makes nForce chipsets really attractive.

Nothing can make nVidia chipsets attractive.

Burn them all I say!

 

[ConTRo13R]

SLi doesnt give that much of a perfomrance increase in games as expected or hyped up to, and in some games it gives less!

 

[milkinc13]

Nvidia won't let Intel have the coding for SLi whereas ATi did give it to Intel, there were throught that when ATi were brought out by AMD that, crossfire on Intel platform would stop but it hasn't. i think it's nvidia just wanting to lock buyers in saying if you want SLi, then you have to have an Nvidia board

 

[gurusan]

Exactly. SLi is the one feature that makes nForce chipsets really attractive.

Anyway, if AMd does let nVIDIA produce chipsets for them, the AMD platform may become more competitve... Especially if AMD locks Crossfire into their own platforms.

Intel without Dual GPU support would look a lot less attractive to many people.

...ehh? Nvidia has made AMD chipsets for years now.

 

[Trunks9486]

...ehh? Nvidia has made AMD chipsets for years now.

I meant exclusively, i know that they make amd chipsets obviously...

The point is, as of today games are in general limited by GPU power and NOT CPU. If Intel is left without multi GPU options in my eyes its a loss, even if its not a large segment of the market, the halo effect can play a major role.

 

[Janesy B]

^
thats assuming if SLI was actually any good, which it isnt.

 

[Trunks9486]

I am not saying its good, i am saying that good or not there are people that go out and buy it. Go into the 3dMark scores and see how many users have SLi and Crossfire, neither is good and yet lots of people use it. The same kind of people who buy extreme processors from Intel are likely to buy multi GPUs.

Anyway, like it not multi GPU is the future. nVIDIA only now is able to have a true successor of G80 which is late 2006 technology, and they are doing so at a huge cost, huge die, and most probably extremely high prices.

Few years back we expected substancial increases in performance every 6-12 months.

 

[Richie P]

Do we really need another thread about this? There's already one in the Graphics card section and one in the Motherboard section.