h e x e n

January 23, 2012 at 6:02am

Isn't this how it always goes? Radeon hits the streets first and trumps nvidia's last generation offerings. Then nvidia comes out and takes the crown back. Six months later Radeon releases again and it repeats.

I'm going to go on the record and say this is a hype train. Fermi was supposed to be the next best thing since sliced bread and had all sorts of problems at launch.

I mean, lets face it. The card companies have traded the crown like clockwork for the past 3 or 4 years now. All depends what quarter of which year you're looking at.

ddg4005

January 23, 2012 at 4:27am

My GTX 560 Ti is handling all of the games I throw at it so I'm gonna sit this round out. Still, it's good to see Nvidia's next-generation GPU architecture getting positive press.

jaygregz

January 22, 2012 at 10:55pm

2 560Ti's OCed in SLI here. I rarely duel monitor and when I do it's just to watch something on the big screen instead of the tv monitor. At this point none of the games I play nor the monitor configuration require anything more and I don't see anything changing anytime soon.
I think I'll probably be upgrading around the same time the NEXT next generation gpu's come out.

Rift2

January 22, 2012 at 1:22am

I just hope my Quad core Phenom quad isn't bottlenecked it's a BX 555 =) I might settle on a mid range card from Nvidia once Kepler is released.

Keith E. Whisman

January 21, 2012 at 12:35pm

I would be saying the same thing if I had a product that was about to be released to get people to wait and not buy from my competitors. Doesn't AMD, Nvidia, and Intel speak much smack with each product release. Like the so-called leaked slides that always seem to surface a few months before a product release. It's all planned marketing and if you believe anything is leaked then your an idiot.
I'll believe it when I say the numbers and not just because marketing reps say so. I don't care who says something is fast until they prove it.

Nimrod

January 21, 2012 at 5:36am

I was criticized and lambasted for saying that this would happen during the AMD reveal earlier. AMD wins on one front tho, they got their first, they cashed in for a while before nVidia comes around. On the other hand news like this is all it could take to start driving sales down at the high end of people who actually pay attention.

I Jedi

January 20, 2012 at 10:18pm

My Voodoo graphics card plays Half Life just fine. Thanks.

kixofmyg0t

January 20, 2012 at 7:17pm

My 6850 runs StarCraft 2 just fine. That's all the power I need.

Baer

January 20, 2012 at 7:09pm

My pair of GTX 580's have so far handled anything I ask them to do. I have had both brands but is the general lead that NVIDIA seems to maintain in drivers that makes me favor them. For example, I could play SKYRIM across three monitors on day one thanks to a mod on wide screen gaming and because of the beta driver that NVIDIA released to allow SLI with SKYRIM surround on the day SKYRIM was released. It took AMD a few weeks to release their dirver, in the meantime AMD users had to disable anything more than one GPU if they wanted to play.
I am not a fanboi but NV is my choice for that reason at this time.

CaptainFabulous

January 20, 2012 at 7:04pm

And the last time we heard about something like this it was an utter failure from Nvidia, so sorry, I wont' believe it till I see it.

JohnP

January 20, 2012 at 7:03pm

One thing that is rarely mentioned about NVidia's Fermi chip is how many of them are sold not as graphics chips but parallel GPU processors in high end supercomputers. NVidia has made a ton of money off of these, a hell'a'lot more profit than the enthusiastic graphics cards has given them. AMD's latest offering is also being touted as a GPU superstar and, like Bulldozer, supposed to compete in a different market (Bulldozer for servers).
It would be much in NVidia's best interest to come out with another clear winner in the GPU battle, as it will continue to feed this cash cow. AMD really did not raise the bar much with their next gen GPU architecture so it should be easy to beat. Of course, if that means we graphics card enthusiasts get a great graphics card out of it is just gravy on the table for NVidia.

imagonex

January 20, 2012 at 6:07pm

I think either brand is good. Buy what you want and what you can afford. Besides, some games are optimized best for certain drivers from either company. Either way, I think these cards have come to a point where they're's enough silicon horsepower to run the majority of games out there. My personal preference is Nvidia. I prefer the length of 10.5 inches and the fan design on the GTX580. And, it goes gorillaz on everything I throw at it! It's provocative! Gets the people going!

Arclite

January 20, 2012 at 5:45pm

PhysX: Nvidia has it, AMD doesn't. I dig the stuff that it does in game.

On the other hand, I find AMD's fusion an intriguing platform form my secondary computer. The wife monopolizes the game PC too much for surfing the web or watching youtube, so I need to build a 2nd PC.

QuadraQ

January 20, 2012 at 3:59pm

I don't hate AMD, in fact I wish they would get their act together, but frankly Nvidia cards have been superior for several years now and there doesn't seem to be any reason that's going to change. Hopefully AMD can do better soon.

nsvander

January 20, 2012 at 2:42pm

Much like AMD toting that its Bulldozer platform would be on par with Intel's Sandy Bridge platform, its all hype until there are cards and benchmarks!

jako800

January 20, 2012 at 1:12pm

I am still running two NVIDA GeForce 9800GT's in SLI.

silence

January 20, 2012 at 11:51am

And here I just bought myself a 7970. I liked the reports I read about the 7970 being the sandy bridge of GPU's with the high overclocking potential. The higher performance and lower power draw etc made it an easy decision to pick one up, but now this article has me second guessing my purchase.

yardGNOME

January 20, 2012 at 11:16am

Here's to hoping. Been holding off on buying anything new from Nvidia for a few years. Still running 8800GTX's.