Why dont Nvidia and AMD just manfacture and brand their GPU?

[Havana_UK]

Those Steam stats provide some interesting insight, and actually show that nVidia is gaining share vs AMD in the DirectX 11 stakes.

The AMD 5770 holds the single largest share at 13.23%, but this share has been in decline since September, and currently holds an 18.63% smaller share now than in September.

GTX460 is the second largest single share at 10% dead, also declined since September, and currenly 15.11% smaller now than then.

Conversly, however, the GTX560's share (third largest at 9.47%) has grown by 66.43% in the same period. This gain in share is only exceeded by the GTX550, GT440 and AMD 6670, however these three cards hold a very small total share (accounting for just over 3% combined) so the gains in real numbers are small.

Out of the top ten largest gainers 6 are nVidia cards compared to 3 AMD and 1 other (which could be 7970 I suppose).

Out of the top ten largest losers 8 are AMD cards compared to only 2 nVidia cards.

The top ten largest shares are split 50/50 with nVidia and AMD holding 5 spots each, however three of the nVidia cards are gaining share (GTX560 66.43%, GTX580 29.47%, GTX570 15.85%), compared to only two AMD cards, one of which is only a minor gain (6950 24.39%, 6870 1.18%).

Of the total DX11 market, AMD hold a 55.45% share vs nVidia's 41.86% share, however nVidia's share has grown from 36.93% in the Sep-Jan period (a 13.3% gain), where AMD's share has contracted from 60.79% (a shrink of 8.8%) in the same period.

I'm not sure it's either Intel on-board or VIA/S3. They both show up as identified chipsets in the other Steam results, plus are they even DX11?

 

[xsistor]

I'm not sure it's either Intel on-board or VIA/S3. They both show up as identified chipsets in the other Steam results, plus are they even DX11?

Hmm that's true. Could be something entirely else we're not too familiar with. Unless you mean the list where teh specific GPU is also listed. If it's that, then you could be right on the 7970 if Steam hasn't been patched to identify those yet.

 

[abarth_1200]

Picking peanuts out of the poo isn't really their forte.

This made me laugh can I use it as my Sig?

 

[Turb3k]

"January 2012 Steam survey shows over 57.28% share for NVIDIA and 38.49% for others."

So that means 57.28% of people who buy graphics cards are idiots!!!
While 38.49% have some clue what they are doing!?

 

[Surveyor]

"January 2012 Steam survey shows over 57.28% share for NVIDIA and 38.49% for others."

It actually shows 57.28% Nvidia, 38.49% ATI, 3.28% Intel and 0.95% others.

So that means 57.28% of people who buy graphics cards are idiots!!!
While 38.49% have some clue what they are doing!?

I'd say the only idiots are those who mock the buying decisions of other people in such a sweeping fashion

The vast majority of people who bought ATI/AMD or Nvidia made a perfectly reasonable choice to buy whichever they did.

 

[Boycey0211]

I bought a GB 480 SOC as the card of choice for my first proper build, purely through recommendation and the only reason id change it in the near future is because of the NOISE! I mean sweet jesus it looks great but even in a really well cooled case it goes mental under load. Bought the Zalman cooler but that doesnt fit as its non-reference

Any solutions? (apart from buying a 580, thats in the pipework )

 

[YiuKorochko]

CPUs can be customized just as much as a partner can customize a GPU.
That part is called the motherboard.

Now if you were able to buy the PCI-PCB and the Nvidia/AMD GPU of your choice I can see that being rather big, but then you'd also have to factor in PCI-RAM which you could upgrade on the PCB. Either that or just get a line of PCBs going.

1GB, 2GB 3GB, then select a GPU, stick it in, apply cooling, away you go.
This makes a lot of sense actually. For someone doing 3D modeling, not having to worry about textures etc, they could get the low VRAM PCB and the fastest GPU and there you go.

Not like now where you get the Nvidia Quadro 6000 with awesome processing power, but 6GB of VRAM (unheard of in any other card).

"January 2012 Steam survey shows over 57.28% share for NVIDIA and 38.49% for others."

So that means 57.28% of people who buy graphics cards are idiots!!!
While 38.49% have some clue what they are doing!?

*Looks at your sig*
That's funny coming from someone who not only bought an Intel CPU over an AMD, but the top-end CPU costing twice as much as the model below it which provides almost the same performance.

Now lets see...Intel and Nvidia always sets the records for the longest times...
AMD/ATI get stuff out first, but are quickly snuffed by their superiors...
And you bought the 3960X...

I'm not even trying to start an argument here, but seriously, as a neutral party who simply wants the best real-world performance no matter what the brand, I don't see your argument making any sense, let alone having any factual purpose.

Before you reply, consider these:
Eye-finity? Nvidia Surround.
Crossfire? SLI.
First releases? Better refinements.

In short, AMD/ATI come out with everything first, thus they are the innovators.
But, Nvidia reproduces those ideas in much more efficient manors only months afterwards.

From a historical point of view, they rely on each other and are both equal.
In terms of who to stick with if you're looking for the absolute maximum performance, you stick with Intel and Nvidia.

Surely that's why you bought the i7 3960X over the FX 8150...?
In my opinion, it would have been more productive getting the i7 3930k and then getting yourself a couple of GTX 570s for the same price (according to OCUK prices).

 

[Turb3k]

I just like to go fishing with the nvidia fan boys! As your all so easy to wind up!

 

[thezakarum]

I just like to go fishing with the nvidia fan boys! As your all so easy to wind up!

Well thats very nice of you.

Why are we talking about shares?

I think the OP question has been answered.