Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

[Apoptosis]

Wonder why NVIDIA is mad at Intel? Here are the slides they sent out to some partners...

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[FeRaL]

The graph kinda looks like it has left out the results for the main reason people buy discrete GPU's... Gaming!

The 2nd slide mentions gaming but the graph doesn't, I wonder why.

[skierkid450]

that is just pathetic, i do however love that they spelled photos wrong in the graphics chart

its stupid, from a 2.3 ghz entry level to a 3 ghz overall kickass chip, of course there's gonna be an increase

you can't compare anyything to a wolfdale, come'on

[Methious]

Using (manipulating) graphs, numbers, charts you can make any thing look advantageous. Look advantageous being the key phrase. That's pretty much what marketing is all about.

Throw up a graph of gaming on a CPU and a GPU and you'll get exactly the opposite showing. Any computer builder worth his salt knows to build a good all around machine the GPU as well as the other parts all have to operate at decent speeds. Neglecting one area over another will cause a bottleneck and end up with an unhappy customer.

Their obviously aiming that propaganda at the less than informed.

[DMB2000uk]

All this bitching is begining to get annoying.

If they all weren't so thick in it I'd consider swapping ship (even at the cost of performance).

Dan

[DX]

Who lies the least often? Intel, Nvidia or AMD? Can't count S3, Via and all the others cause that would be too big a cut in performance.

[Zertz]

They're right on what they published ;)

But they did forget about the whole point of buying a discrete GPU

[DaIceMan]

Who lies the least often? Intel, Nvidia or AMD? Can't count S3, Via and all the others cause that would be too big a cut in performance.

not lies... marketing. Marketing = skewing the facts in your favor to make your product/service look more appealing.

I compare marketing to statistics. For example, "this pitcher has his best outings on Tuesdays, evening games, when the temp is below 73 deg, and the opponents lead off batter is a right handed throwing, left handed batter".

[DemonicDerek]

If you ask me this looks like "Biased, Skewed, FIxed..." is written all over it!

[ibleet]

Its just propaganda...not much you can do about it except ignore it.

[w00fd06]

this seems like part of the Intel v nVidia battle over which is better, CPU or GPU, im pretty sure nvidia made a claim similar to this a few weeks ago (saying GPUs were better), all the while AMD sits back and says that they have the best of both worlds [cough]... except they still can't reach the extreme performance of either company.