Predictions for the future battles.

[AdamAnubis]

I've been pleased so far with how ATI are now running on par with their tech with nvidia, the HD3 series was still that tiny bit behind, but now ATI are level/pulling ahead imo.

The 9800GTX+ has been released to combat the HD4850, but what do you think nvidia will do next? The GTX280 was a bit of a flop, the same with 9800GX2. They just don't seem to have a mainstream card to replace the 8800's. What do you think their next move/prodcut will be?

Personally, I'm waiting for the HD4870x2 to come out and see what that will be like, but i think nvidia might just go quit and hull down for a year, and then come out with some kick ass card next year (hopefulyl anyway). Nvidia got too complacent with their cards and pricing. Hopefully ATI's wake up call will make some difference and nvidia will start using DDR5 and 55nm etc. If they do, hopefully they will be great I'm glad ATI have come back, but i don't want nvidia to be beaten as personally i think they are good company.
ATI are good at pioneering with tech, nvidia are good at making everything work well. The HD4870 has like 800 SP's, but only performs the same as a nvid card with 192, surely if nvidia made a card with 800 SP's it would be immense? Or am i just babbling without knowing anything?

Your views?

[aidanjt]

I haven't liked nVidia from the start, their policy towards competition is, and always has been, assmilate or destroy via whatever means possible, the majority of their precieved performance advantage comes with nVidia GPU specific code in game engines. I'm glad their stock has been dropping off, hopefully this will humble them and change their attitude towards getting along 3rd parties.

[TooNice]

Nvidia has made relatively worse card in the past and came back with something competent followed by something that pretty awesome (lousy FX, catching up with GF6/GF7, followed by something so good it took ATI/AMD and themselves to beat). Same with AMD (underwhelming 2900, catching up with the 38xx, followed by the excellent 48xx). Both companies have been guilty of some rather 'underhanded optimisations', and probably every company with any sort of leverage have pushed for optimisations for their hardware.

It's good to see that AMD made a come back. Personally, I think that nVidia will need one round to more or less catch up in the segment they are losing (mid-range), and another round to come up with something great. And so forth.

[schmunk]

I'm not sure you can call the GTX280 'a bit of a flop'. It's definititely the fastest single-gpu card available, by some margin.

[kalniel]

Your views?

AMD will fail to sell enough CPUs to justify keeping any fabs. They'll eventually pull out of the market leaving graphics to nVidia and CPUs to Intel. nVidia will rule for a little while until Intel start offering such a comprehensive overall system that you can only use it well with Larabee cards, which by DX12/13 will be fully supported and everyone will be coding for graphics in X86 again.

Or was that the wrong kind of future preditions?

[AdamAnubis]

So basically, Intel rules all?