Nvidia pulls away from AMD in graphics card market share

[magnusfl]

AMD problem is not there tech but there drivers which has never keep up with nivida

[watercooled]

How exactly? Aside from Linux, the driver myth is pretty much dead and buried.

[KeyboardDemon]

@canopus72: It's not really absurd to compare the top end card from nVidia to AMD's top end card. The comparison is between the best that each company has to offer at the time. If I were in the market right now they would be the cards I would have to choose between. But by your logic, when AMD bring out the 3x0 series of cards that would mean the current range of nVidia cards would be seen as the previous range, but I'm sure it makes more sense to look at the 290/290X etc... as the current range and then look at the HD 7xxx range as the previous generation of AMD cards.





When AMD launches the next series of cards it will be compared to nVidia's current best offering and hopefully beat it in all metrics until nVidia releases their next card and the wheel keeps turning.

More importantly reviewers can't compare like for like if one of the products in the comparison is an unreleased item.

[crossy]

AMD problem is not there tech but there drivers which has never keep up with nivida

I've found AMD's Windows drivers to actually be pretty good - certainly they've given me a lot less trouble than the NVidia equivalents (actually one of the key reasons why I switched to AMD). As "watercooled" says, where AMD have a real problem is with their Linux drivers which, according to reports I've read, are pretty lousy in comparison to their Green Team equivalents.

When AMD launches the next series of cards it will be compared to nVidia's current best offering and hopefully beat it in all metrics until nVidia releases their next card and the wheel keeps turning.

Very true, and it's the way I like it.

Unfortunately, this story (or whatever inspired it), seems to be reported as "evidence" of the continuing decline of AMD, the last article I read claiming that AMD isn't really that interested in conventional CPU's (where it's beaten by Intel) and GPU's (where NVidia apparently is king of the hill). Instead - so the article claimed (when I can find the link) - AMD's decided to focus on mobile and APU's. Personally, I think that's a load of hooey and can't see any evidence to support those wild conclusions. Although a replacement for the CPU's is long, long overdue in my humble opinion.

[MrRockliffe]

I've been having loads of issues with NVIDIA drivers and windows at the moment. Lots of artifacts, freezing, crashing and other problems. Only seems to happen at WQHD though.