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Why Nvidia?

rypt said:
The support for CUDA is still slow to take off even in CFD apps such as Fluent and STAR-CD (two of the market leaders arguably).
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I don't know why you can't accept that the 480 will be useful to some people :confused:

It seems like it is causing you great amounts of stress.:p
 
Jono8 said:
I don't know why you can't accept that the 480 will be useful to some people :confused:

It seems like it is causing you great amounts of stress.:p
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I simply pointed out that even the top end of the CFD apps doesn't have CUDA support as yet
 
Ksanti said:
Now, I don't want to start a fanboy war here, ....
So what is it that makes people love Fermi and at the moment Nvidia? I accept that fanboys exist but I don't get people logically choosing Nvidia over ATi for the most part right now?
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Brand loyalty. Same reason some people love Coke and hate Pepsi, love Burger King hate MacDonalds. People aren't robots, we're swayed by marketing, branding, colours even. Logic can be easily over-ridden when it suits us. People will naturally focus on the things that suit them (e.g. benchmark cherry-picking) and ignore the ones that don't. It's easy:)

Ask a football fan to be 100% objective about the team they follow (or their arch enemy), hah! I'm not saying it cannot be done, but most of the time, it just won't happen. And it'd be boring if it did always happen.
 
Fledge said:
I smell fanboyism.
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D.P. represents a small niche portion of the market in that he uses CUDA for his projects or something (correct me if I am wrong). His usage warrants its use, as any others.

The other type who will happily pay anything and not care if its £600 I'd imagine would want a 5970, unless they are favoured to Nvidia and would give away their family, house, genitals etc for Nvidia. (that applies to ATi fanboys too)

However for the other 95% of the people who buy GPUs (i.e. for gaming or a bit of "benching") CUDA, Stream, PhysX, BBQx etc etc are in reality irrelevant, and the most sensible buy really is probably a 5850 or two overclocked. I see no point in a typical rational consumer wanting a Fermi GPU really.

If you want to spend money then there is no problem. I can relate to it i"less bang for buck". Someone who doesn
 
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