News - Nvidia Q4 results: "outstanding year" for GPU business

[HEXUS]

However plans for flashy, triangular Silicon Valley Campus are put on hold.

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[DemonHighwayman]

It's not surprising they had an "outstanding year" with the markup on there mid-high end GPU's !

I remember only about five years ago getting one of there top end cards for £300 (GTX 280), the way things are going, potentially new PC gamers will be turned off ever even giving PC gaming a try due to the sky high prices.

I'm not singling Nvidia out though, as it's clear Intel are happy robbing people with the price of there CPU's.

[Wozza63]

It's not surprising they had an "outstanding year" with the markup on there mid-high end GPU's !

I remember only about five years ago getting one of there top end cards for £300 (GTX 280), the way things are going, potentially new PC gamers will be turned off ever even giving PC gaming a try due to the sky high prices.

I'm not singling Nvidia out though, as it's clear Intel are happy robbing people with the price of there CPU's.

For high end gaming on a single screen at max settings all you need is a GTX 770 which can be had at less than £250. The GPUs above it are completely pointless unless you are using 3 screens or 4k screens.

[DemonHighwayman]

For high end gaming on a single screen at max settings all you need is a GTX 770 which can be had at less than £250. The GPUs above it are completely pointless unless you are using 3 screens or 4k screens.

True, but 4k is being injected in to us as the new standard, I imagine the ordinary guy who wants to get in on the PC gamer thing will want a future proofed system. Anyway my point was that for a high end part, the prices have risen exponentially and are now out of reach for many gamers/enthusiasts.

With the very few enhancements in processing power over the last few years I'm starting to wonder if we are approaching an apex in what is achievable, even the top end cards struggle a bit with 4k or multi monitor rigs at full detail settings in game.... The future.. possibly, 10fps ?!

[YazX]

For high end gaming on a single screen at max settings all you need is a GTX 770 which can be had at less than £250. The GPUs above it are completely pointless unless you are using 3 screens or 4k screens.

thats true on one screen and 1080p resolution, on 1440p one single GTX 770 isnt enough, you jumped directly to 4k which has no mature hardware to handle it properly and sustain 60 FPS, i have 27" @ 2560 x 1440 resolution and GTX 770 SLI and in some unoptimized games, FPS dips to 40's.

[Brewster0101]

It's not surprising they had an "outstanding year" with the markup on there mid-high end GPU's !

I remember only about five years ago getting one of there top end cards for £300 (GTX 280), the way things are going, potentially new PC gamers will be turned off ever even giving PC gaming a try due to the sky high prices.

I'm not singling Nvidia out though, as it's clear Intel are happy robbing people with the price of there CPU's.

For high end gaming on a single screen at max settings all you need is a GTX 770 which can be had at less than £250. The GPUs above it are completely pointless unless you are using 3 screens or 4k screens.

270X can pretty much handle 1080p gaming on high settings for £150

[zdn1042]

Glad to see them doing well.

[ShadowViper]

I really wonder where these companies will be in the next few years since tablets are picking up a lot of steam, I have even seen journalist report that we are at the end of the PC era (though tablets are technically PC's still- I am sure they mean desktop era)

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I really wonder where these companies will be in the next few years since tablets are picking up a lot of steam, I have even seen journalist report that we are at the end of the PC era (though tablets are technically PC's still- I am sure they mean desktop era)

They will probably just make sure they dump more money into PR.