Graphics competition looking grim?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

damn... suddenly i was hoping to see Matrox on the top of the 3dmark hall of fame

[3dfx]

What you have to understand is that Top of the range cards like Radeon 9700's and Geforce FX's only take up around 5-8% of the graphics card market, and nvidia dominates areound 50-60% of the total market. PPL have already said that the success or the Radeon 9700 etc has not given ATI any more market gain. It's card's like the Radeon 9000 and the Nvidia MX's that sell in the masses, BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEAP!!! These are the cards that decide their fates. This is why Matrox has such a small market share as they dont sell cheap shit, they sell expensive shit ..lol j/k that the average person cant afford. Most ppl wont spend £200 - £400 on a graphics card tbh. You could say that most of us here are part of an elite group

[K6-III]

Well, for those users ATI has the 9100, 9500, 9500 Pro

[Wombat]

Originally posted by 3dfx
What you have to understand is that Top of the range cards like Radeon 9700's and Geforce FX's only take up around 5-8% of the graphics card market, and nvidia dominates areound 50-60% of the total market. PPL have already said that the success or the Radeon 9700 etc has not given ATI any more market gain. It's card's like the Radeon 9000 and the Nvidia MX's that sell in the masses, BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEAP!!! These are the cards that decide their fates. This is why Matrox has such a small market share as they dont sell cheap shit, they sell expensive shit ..lol j/k that the average person cant afford. Most ppl wont spend £200 - £400 on a graphics card tbh. You could say that most of us here are part of an elite group

Yes, but you're forgetting that nVidia is only there because years ago the GeForce got them noticed, so even my no-knowledge extended family knew they wanted an "nVidia computer." They don't know the model, but they know the brand.

[Kurt]

That's why Nvidia is still outselling ATi.

Besides, whoever said the GFFX is a failure might be in for a surprise. With Nvidia's habit to put the same core in various products, you might find yourself eating them from breakfast and looking for the Kelloggs in the pack

Of course it might be the n-th revision of the chip, but the fact that ATi is jumping onto the 0.13µm bandwagon at TSMC migth indicate that their process is finally giving decent yields, which will level the playing field with Nvidia...What most ppl seem to forget is that it's not so much the product you sell that counts as much as your capacity to _deliver_ it. That's why Intel is beating the cr*p out of AMD any day...

[3dfx]

Originally posted by Wombat
Yes, but you're forgetting that nVidia is only there because years ago the GeForce got them noticed, so even my no-knowledge extended family knew they wanted an "nVidia computer." They don't know the model, but they know the brand.

I had forget to mention that tbh, though I was aware of that point