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Watch out AMD: Intel Arc A580 could be the next great affordable GPU | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

In one hand I want the Nvidia quasi monopoly to end. On the other hand it might bankrupt AMD on its way.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Be hard to bankrupt AMD when their CPUs make them tons of money.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Be hard to bankrupt AMD when their CPUs make them tons of money.

    And for the time being, AMD offers the best CPU-iGPU combination. Intel is still lagging behind on GPU tech and NVidia has no x86 CPU -- even though the most important patents expire in two years, I don't think NVidia will make an x86 CPU without the more modern extensions that are still patented.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Best cpu+igpu yes, but not only that. In the server realm they're doing incredibly well. EPYC remains unmatched by anything Intel has.

    ARM has a future in servers too, but for a lot of companies it isn't there yet (personally, I hope it never is and they go to RISC-V instead but yeah).

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In one hand I want the Nvidia quasi monopoly to end.

    NVidia has no monopoly in the PC space. Intel + AMD combined far outnumber NVidia GPUs overall, NVidia just has certain niche markets where they dominate with high profit margins but that's not what this story is about.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    If we are talking gaming (which by no means is a niche market), nvidia absolutely dominates the GPU market. The steam survey reports a market share of 75% for nvidia gpus

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They also dominate compute. There's still a lot of software that depends on CUDA.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If we are talking gaming (which by no means is a niche market), nvidia absolutely dominates the GPU market. The steam survey reports a market share of 75% for nvidia gpus

    Gaming also compromises Candy Crush and Wordle which are not on Steam. The article is about a low-cost GPU, not a 4080 competitor.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I would claim that most people that need a dedicated GPU for gaming are using steam

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    I would claim that most people that need a dedicated GPU for gaming are using steam

    True but you said "If we are talking gaming (which by no means is a niche market), nvidia absolutely dominates the GPU market". So gaming in general which includes the massive number of casuals playing simple web games and that's what I was replying to. Gaming with dedicated GPU is a niche market compared to the sheer size of the overall PC market which has an installed base of literally billions of devices in use. So again: NVidia has no monopoly.

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