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There is no good-enough with AAA games short of Hollywood photo-realism and that's a lot of GPU transistors away.
by excuse-me 15y ago
There is no good-enough with AAA games short of Hollywood photo-realism and that's a lot of GPU transistors away.
- wmf 15y agoThat's not true if AAA games are ported from six-year-old consoles.
- pvarangot 15y agoI meant good enough in "good enough when compared to what a dedicated card can offer for the same price", not "the absolutely unbeatable graphics". If transistor price doesn't decline for discrete graphic card manufacturers, there will be no more transistors in your GPU ever again, unless you pay a hefty premium for the transistor count difference. This is what NVIDIA is complaining about in the article. They will have to compete with Intel's bundled graphics card, and not only in the lower segments of the market but also the mid and high/mid segment.
- excuse-me 15y agoI agree that NVidia are looking at a brick wall. But if people are willing to pay $1-2K for a gaming rig (and given that games are $100-200 plus a monthly subscription they probably will) then the proportion of that cost which is GPU will increase for a few years. The question is whether in the 'post-PC era' it would be worth the games companies putting out games which will play on a $500 home PC with an embedded intel GPU - even if that GPU is as good as todays GT295. Between high end gamers, family console gamers and casual mobile gamers is there any profit in good-enough?