With the current success of AMD in the discrete graphics market, it would only make sense to think that NVIDIA might not be doing so hot. In reality, most of their products continue to sell quite well and there are strong (though losing) arguments for some of their offerings over their Radeon counterparts. One card [...]

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It’s been a while since we’ve posted an update on AMD. During this break the company has not let up. In addition to the continued success of the original members of the Radeon HD4000 series, several new cards have been making the rounds and churning out terrific results to boot. The success of their [...]

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Earlier this summer, we heard that NVIDIA might have plans for a 55nm based GT200.  With support for GDDR5 it would run fast than the current version.  Rumors of a dual chip NVIDIA card by the end of 2008 are not confirms, but if such a product came to the market NVIDIA would be setting [...]

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In response to the thrashing that its current high-end graphics cards are receiving from the Radeon HD4870, NVIDIA has launched a new product aimed to compete directly with AMD’s juggernaut. The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 sports, among other things, an extremely long name and the ability to single-handedly confuse the hell out of just [...]

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From the latest sneaky snake pictures taken of X58 boards from at least four of the major motherboard manufacturers, it appears that SLI will be absent in the launch products. We previously wrote a nice long editorial about the whole SLI on X58 debacle, in which we stated that Intel would not be putting an [...]

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With the way things have been going in the graphics industry, it would not be to brash an assertion to say that NVIDIA is likely to be on top again in a couple of months. However, taking into consideration other factors might shed some light on the reasons that at least one AMD executive believes [...]

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Lucid, a little-known fabless semiconductor designer, has just announced a new product that could render both NVIDIA’s SLI and ATI’s CrossFire technolgies obsolete. Despite the performance advantages gained using the existing multi-GPU setups, SLI and CrossFire each have drawbacks that prevent many enthusiasts from adopting either. Logic would lead most people to believe that using [...]

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Perhaps adding insult to injury, NVIDIA has posted a loss of $120.9 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. No matter how you slice it this is bad news. Although the earnings represent a year over year increase of 15%, many expect the losses to continue into Q3. NVIDIA cites $198M set aside for [...]

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Just when we thought that maybe the defective G84 and G86 problems were over, new reports that the problem is once again far more widespread than previously understood leaves us wondering just how deep this rabbit hole goes. It was already troubling enough to find out that even a small number of shipped mobile NVIDIA [...]

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Intel’s next generation processor has already been previewed to the point where there probably won’t be any surprises when it launches in October of this year (OK, maybe one ;o ). Of course the processor has been shown to be phenomenal. It’s Intel we’re talking about, after all. Intel, the company that just three short [...]

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Tom’s Hardware has posted its monthly “Best Video Cards for the Money” list, and for the first time in recent memory, AMD is pretty much unanimously preferred across the board.
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Clearly this whole G84 and G86 fiasco is pretty bad news for NVIDIA. If recent reports are to be believed, the problem is far more widespread than even the Inquirer initially believed. Not only are all GeForce 8600 and 8400/8500 parts affected by the weak substrate issues, but members of the mobile GeForce Go 6000 [...]

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Yesterday we reported about the major issue of NVIDIA G86 and G84 GPUs being defective. In their second quarter fiscal 2009 business update, NVIDIA detailed a $150 to $200 million dollar allocation to cover the anticipated costs for warranty, repair, replacement, etc. of “certain versions of its previous generation GPU and MCP products used in [...]

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So over the past couple of weeks there has been a huge amount of talk regarding a report revealing that NVIDIA’s mobile G86 and G84 GPUs are defective. It all started on July 2nd when NVIDIA released their second quarter fiscal 2009 business update. In the report, NVIDIA says that it will “take a one-time [...]

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As a consumer it might be a bit difficult to even consider that perhaps this new graphics war might have some negative connotations for the future. Low prices, high performance, and a wide array of options are all mashed together into a puree of gaming bliss for those of us looking to buy. However, the [...]

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