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Well this thread went political fast. As a US taxpayer am I allowed to ask for the potholes in my roads to be filled or am I supposed to just sit down and shut up and let TPTB play with their billion-dollar toys with taxpayer money?

He used UE4 instead of Source 2. Interesting.

"Product profitability" is definitely a key term in that release. IOW, margins suck on those vehicles.

None of that would have happened. There were all kinds of efforts to open up the gaming market to "open standards" by various companies like Valve and that went nowhere. For years NVIDIA was OpenGL's devout disciple. All that fell on deaf ears. Windows on ARM is a trainwreck because Windows...

NVIDIA tried to license x86 many, many years ago and Intel told them to pound sand. They wouldn't even allow a translation technology to emulate x86. Intel has used its monopoly power to prevent NVIDIA from entering the IGP / APU market, which is a critical market to be in for laptop sales...

Hopefully this story is true and NVIDIA is able to completely keep this product off the market. After all, it's only fair.

That's not true. The cat can wear tin foil as long as it's the store brand. Reynolds Wrap is reserved for the man's head. Get it straight.

You can unlock it with an in-app purchase called Start8.

They also hid a usable interface in Windows 8.

The Steam stats for GPUs aren't really that much different than what we've seen in the sales market share data by places like Jon Peddie or whatever, especially if you consider that a decent chunk of AMD sales over the past 2-3 years have gone to mining rather than gaming on Steam. I guess what...

The people I know who were harrumphed about the 970 issue simply re-boxed it and marched it right back down to the retailer............................... aaaaaaaaaaand then promptly bought a 980.

So what the hell is everybody complaining about?

You guys are a riot. That's not how it went. I remember a lot of damage control but I don't recall them saying that it was some kind of good feature. I do remember AMD running some ankle-biting Twitter campaigns about how their cards had 4 GB of RAM and all that. And within about 3 months...

Everything in business is "anti-competitive". That's what makes you guys sound so ridiculous. NVIDIA has nowhere near a monopoly in GPUs.

Or, put another way, AMD has put itself at a disadvantage because it's a second-rate GPU producer with no leverage with its partners.

I would love to hear your guys' explanation for the marketshare differences as they stand now, for discrete GPUs used for gaming. Only a small sliver of sales are 1080Ti's. So what's been going on the last five years?

It's not pertinent because NVIDIA has been releasing new architectures. They got two cycles out of Fermi and Kepler and one each out of Maxwell and Pascal. When AMD released the 290 or whatever it was it was some rebadged card from like 1982. AMD hemorrhaged huge marketshare during that period.

There's nothing wrong with any of that. If AMD wants to be in the top-tier brand (ROG or whatever) then they can be the top-tier company and make those kinds of demands. In the meantime, NVIDIA will be helping ASUS, Gigabyte, etc. to haul in the cash with their GPUs.

You can word it how you want but it's true that Maxwell and Pascal were superior architectures to whatever AMD was putting out at the time. Hell back in the 290 days weren't they just rebadging old crap? AMD is in its position because it was lazy for over a decade, and the company was badly...

About the same that Kyle got from AMD.

That's not extortion. People are using all these emotionally-charged words that don't even make any sense in this case.

It's the truth and it's been true for awhile. NVIDIA has had better architectures for at least two generations now. Their drivers have been historically better. Their discrete GPUs are preferred by consumers for gaming purposes by a wide margin.

Looks pretty vague to me and open to interpretation.

Since you "definitely" know that this is illegal, could you cite us the law at least? Show us a US Code number so that we know what we're dealing with.

This is part of the reason that makes people question if this is all theatrical hysterics by people who have an ax to grind. If Coca-Cola enters into an agreement with a restaurant like McDonald's or whatever, you better believe there will be no Pepsi products on the premises. The equivalent...

How do they know what the performance is going to be if they don't even know anything about the architecture changes yet? Or is Turing just a modified Volta?

Ohh, they could. They would just have to build a better GPU architecture, grab the market share, haul in the dough and pay ASUS the Benjamins to give them exclusive access to the name. But that ain't gonna happen because AMD's been phoning it in for a decade and now they're living on food...

This is a pity ad. Pity ads don't respond well with consumers because the company outs itself as the weaker choice. "Buy from us because the big guy is picking on us and we need to be protected." AMD has become the Jeb Bush of the tech industry.

They haven't even released a product map in years. They used to have that thing go out for 4-5 architectures into the future.

You don't have to put out a competitive product to win the market.

I was simply returning his "appeal to authority" argument right back to him, which should be obvious by the fact that I aped his very language. So I agree with you. You will notice that he didn't actually address my criticism about how fake this outrage is, but rather tried to shut down that...

I don't think the outrage over this is authentic. Maybe people just like giving the appearance about how anti-monopoly they are, but are they really? Over the years I've had discussions here about this monopoly and that monopoly that have been entrenched in the PC gaming world and -- as far as...

When nvidia releases their new round of cards they're going to fly off the shelves.

I really have no problem with nvidia doing whatever it needs to do. AMD / Intel have such a monopoly on APUs because of their x86 situation; until that situation gets broken up, whatever nvidia has to do to compete and survive is only fair.

Valve: "Hey guys! We're going to launch a console for PC gamers!" PC Gamers: "Fantastic, what launch titles will you have?" Valve: *crickets* Later, at Valve headquarters: "Cancel the project, guys. They expect games."

Making Steam Machines / SteamOS work as a viable consumer product would require effort. Hence, obviously, Valve is out.

This kind of insane volatility seems normal for cryptocurrencies.

inb4 Shintai reminds us all that this is just one big nothingburger

Well China is now in the year of the dog and they tend to be very, very superstitious about these kinds of things bringing luck and good fortune. So who knows what the year will bring with Dogecoin.

The first thing I thought of was that Intel intentionally put this "flaw" into their processors as a backdoor at the request of the NSA and just got caught. That's when I realized I had foil around my head. But seriously... could there be a more perfect, easily exploitable flaw than this?