A representative for Nvidia Corp. said in an interview with an online publication that nobody in the world, except the United Kingdom, “cares” about ATI Radeon graphics processing units that compete against Nvidia’s GeForce. The scandalous claim was “supported” by demonstration of market share graphs that did not include ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, at all.
“The UK is the only place in the world where anyone talks about AMD or ATI,” said Roy Taylor, vice president of content business development at Nvidia, in an interview with Tech Radar web-site.
According to Jon Peddie Research, among 358.47 million graphics adapters (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) supplied last year (including standalone and integrated options for desktops, notebooks and workstations), approximately 70.194 million came from ATI, graphics product group of AMD. However, when the interviewers noted this fact to Mr. Taylor, he replied that nobody cared about that.
It is unclear whether the claim that nobody in the world, except the UK, cares about the rival fits into common business ethics and is whether this is a reflection of Nvidia’s official attitude towards AMD, or a personal opinion of Mr. Taylor. It also not clear why Nvidia continues to develop core-logic sets for central processing units from AMD if they are not needed anywhere in the world except the UK.
This is not the first example of Nvidia’s controversial behavior in the recent weeks. Back in April the chief executive of the company – Jen-Hsun Huang – promised to open a can of whoop-ass on Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of central processing units, whereas chief scientist of the company – David Kirk – said that AMD’s ATI did not have competitive products at all.
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Nvidia employs bunch of egoist kids for their public relations. They could at least find normal kids, but they chose egoist fools. Why? I dont know and I dont care, however I dont live in UK and I care about radeon gfx cards, therefore their statement is false.
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Posted by: BorgDrone
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Date: 05/12/08 12:21:28 PM]
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if you care about subpar inferior products then no one cares about you borgdrone.
You have got to be a raving idiot to consider ATI or AMD for anything these days.
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Posted by: lol
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Date: 05/12/08 12:38:48 PM]
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[1] in the HTPC world ATi/AMD is way ahead of nvidia
[2] their prices are pretty much competing considering the performance differences. Also, the timing of their products is improving compared to 2006 and early 2007, Example, HD 3850 which whooped the 8600GT(s) a$$
[3] their budget motherboards/chipsets are just awesome, full HD playback support through an on board video card, way ahead of both, intel and nvidia.
[4] their dx 10.1 was proven efficient and really something, check assasins creeds late reviews and GFX card comparison @ hardocp
My point:
whoever is not paying attention to what ATi/AMD is doing/producing right now, should pay more attention. Sure, their CPU line for desktop users was proven useless for more than 8 months now, but in the graphics field and HD playback technologies and being the first to the market that delivers directx 10.1 real performance advantage with 55nm process technology, i'd say ATi is far away from being forgotten anytime soon.
P.S:
Right now i got an intel processor + nvidia video card, but i am keeping my mind/eyes open for what these guys at ATi/AMD are doing, waiting for a good opportunity for an upgrade into the ATi/AMD direction.
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Posted by: Me, expressing myself
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Date: 05/12/08 07:19:47 PM]
nVidia are rather high and mighty themselves at the moment. But I don't think you were around during the FX period when ATI did whoop their arse rather hard. What happened during then...practically they were shitting their pants...
If ATI does drop the proverbial bombshell like that again on nVidia, they'll probably blame it on you.
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Posted by: sora3
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Date: 05/13/08 01:49:05 AM]
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I'm guessing he took the "Steve Ballmer 21 day leadership course". ( As seen on TV ) ;)
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Posted by: Bill
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Date: 05/12/08 01:34:16 PM]
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"I'm only one in Universe, not counting situation in some small village" - dipshit.
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Posted by: Konrad
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Date: 05/12/08 03:14:26 PM]
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subpar inferior products... lol where do these fanboys get their motivation? Mr. Taylor is that you?? haha when will they learn.
Seems some nVidia execs needs to pull their heads out of their asses.
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Posted by: blazed
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Date: 05/12/08 04:01:13 PM]
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WORD!!
but seriously, bad mouthing competitive companies?!! VERY amateur and unprofessional.
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Posted by: Me, expressing myself
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Date: 05/12/08 07:24:58 PM]
Yes, this is mean and unprofessional. I never had an ATI card (I was always a little biased towards Nvidia for some reason), but I hate the arrogant behavior Nvidia is showing lately, and I really wish ATI would teach them a lesson - the same way Intel tought AMD a lesson when they started getting too cocky. Or, maybe, Intel will be the one to teach Nvidia a lesson this time too...
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Posted by: johnny
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Date: 05/13/08 08:03:44 AM]
pfft... intel was really fukked wen nvidia proved dat havin a better GPU wid a low end CPU is much better than better CPU vs Low end CPU........
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Posted by: nick
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Date: 07/25/08 02:03:57 PM]
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His comments is really silly. I have owned 5 Intel to 0 AMD, 6 nvidia to 0 ATI. I am always looking for the best product and usually when I build or buy, Intel or Nvidia is a head. If AMD or ATI come out with something better when I am shopping, I will get that. Competition is good. ATI did whoop on Nvidia for 2 years.
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Posted by: xophaser
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Date: 05/13/08 11:22:56 PM]
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I had the opposite experience of Xophaser. Usually when I was out shopping, AMD/ATI was ahead of Intel/Nvidia.
For me, it was a choice between Athlon Thunderbird vs Slot-based Intel PIII. It was a choice between the Athlon 64 and Northwood P4.
Likewise, It was a choice between Radeon 9700 Pro, and the GeForce FX...
I adopted a high-resolution DVI LCD panel early on. For others like me, they KNOW how bad NVIDIA's DVI-output was at resolutions higher than 1600x1200. The FX was egregious in this aspect especially.
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Posted by: Kenrou Horo
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Date: 05/14/08 04:01:26 PM]
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K Horo,
My experience is within th elast 10 years. Recently ATI had some great products like the x1900 and 1800 series, even though they have been around longer then nvidia. Ati focused on image and color, while Nvidia is for the fastest game. AMD FX line was good for a 2-3 years, but looking at the long history of Intel, there really is no competition. Grant I have 2 built in nvidia with my laptop, and one nvidia on a PS3. So here is where the other 3 were nvida. My first nvidia was a TNT, Ati was still in 2D mode and 3dfx was losing steam. The second card was Geforce3 which ended 3DFX and the voodoo line and ATI has nothing even close then. Recently last year in 07, Nvidia came out with the 8800 when ATI was too slow to get a DX10 card out and only had the X1900 series. AMD has no answer for the Intel quad core on performance or pricing last year. Only the FX line like 3 years ago was a little better then the P4, but all the other pentium series and Duo Core sereis really had no competition. It always seem like AMD had a chip like a generation behind Intel except for a 2-3 years span in the early 2000.
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Posted by: xophaser
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Date: 05/18/08 10:22:12 PM]
ummm u 4got 2 mention dat the ATi X1950 XTX is considered the king of DX9 gfx cards and frankly so nvidia really fukked up wid the G9x series GPUs confusing every1....
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Posted by: nick
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Date: 07/25/08 02:09:03 PM]
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that sounds like a man with nothing to worry about (in his own mind he is a king nay a GOD)
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Posted by: Athlonite
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Date: 05/30/08 02:35:41 AM]
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Is NVidia now loosing completely the mind. Radeon HD4850 is now in all mind around EMEA. It has much better performance than competitive products from NV. On top comes that NV has mayor supply, PCB and Heating problems and needs to spend $150 up to $200 Mio for fixing these issues.
The R4xxx series is going to outperform everything, so NV should face the realitiy.
Is this the arogancy or just not knowing the market. They know, that the consumer market is changing fast. NV dominated the last two years, but lost now momentum.
I am sorry for NVidia, but now the momentum is at ATI!
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Date: 07/14/08 06:27:42 AM]
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i can back this statement up.... i live in the middle east and the irony is dat all the hype over here is about ATi.... sum ppl havnt even heard abt nvidia....
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Posted by: nick
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Date: 07/25/08 02:06:26 PM]
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