AMD's Market Share has Crashed, with 3 out of 4 PC gamers using Nvidia GPUs. AMD really need to get their next generation out and soon.
Read more on the AMD Market Share Crash and Nvidia's rise to over 75% here.
Figures are calculated based on end of year accounts, AMD have had nothing but trouble and a hard time of it, what with being cruelly levered out of the market by Intel for a long time they took a huge hit financially for that, the Hynix factory blaze early last year lost them development time and materials, they then dropped TSMC as a silicon supplier (big mistake) in favour of manufacturing their own which never panned out and so they return to TSMC, again slowing production.. in a small attempt at saving money they then globally laid off many members of staff including some CEOs. The Catalyst drivers have been extremely slow in development and rather lacking in any major improvements, Nvidia has smashed ahead with Maxwell and rightly so, the architecture is simply magnificent and energy savvy
. With all that said despite catalyst issues the 280/290/295x2 are still fantastic cards at fantastic prices and you'd have to be mental to ignore them.
Figures are calculated based on end of year accounts, AMD have had nothing but trouble and a hard time of it, what with being cruelly levered out of the market by Intel for a long time they took a huge hit financially for that, the Hynix factory blaze early last year lost them development time and materials, they then dropped TSMC as a silicon supplier (big mistake) in favour of manufacturing their own which never panned out and so they return to TSMC, again slowing production.. in a small attempt at saving money they then globally laid off many members of staff including some CEOs. The Catalyst drivers have been extremely slow in development and rather lacking in any major improvements, Nvidia has smashed ahead with Maxwell and rightly so, the architecture is simply magnificent and energy savvy
As for Pascal, it looks great on paper in even during the GDC it was praised as being the next big thing, I'll be blown away if Nvidia get it to do everything they claim when it's launched. If it does I'll print this thread off and eat it on camera.
As for Pascal, it looks great on paper in even during the GDC it was praised as being the next big thing, I'll be blown away if Nvidia get it to do everything they claim when it's launched. If it does I'll print this thread off and eat it on camera.
Naked.....then you have a deal
Its such a shame AMD can't challenge nVidia head to head, now my last AMD cards were 7970's xfire and i wont lie they were beasts, but i was riddled with too many issues with xfire, i like to have games for release day and if AMD cant provide decent xfire profile in time then it makes me question my purchase.
Now ive always owned AMD/ATi cards the only nVidia gpu i bought was some shitty 5800 i think, and 8800GT now the 8800GT was a game changer in nVidia history, and i personally believe the 780 & 980 are exceptional gpus' untouchable in there respective classes, which i why im happy to pay the premium.
But i stick by what ive always said, if AMD were to release something that was a absolute monster beyond reasonble doubt and made drivers and xfire profiles that worked on release day for games, id switch, why, because dropping £500 on new gpu's every so often gets unnecessarily expensive, not to say i dont have the money but why spend more than you have to? But then again this is all relative to said AMD gpu being sub £400.
Im sure im not the only person who would do this, i can understand R&D is expensive but AMD have no idea how much the consumer wants them to bring something to wipe the floor with nVidia!
... very nice reading!
Naked, I'm not really sure that's a good idea.. I'd break the internet and many hearts :lol:
