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Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby Apoptosis on Mon May 12, 2008 7:44 am

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

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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby FeRaL on Mon May 12, 2008 10:41 am

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. :-k
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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby skierkid450 on Mon May 12, 2008 11:30 am

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

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
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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby Methious on Mon May 12, 2008 11:57 am

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.
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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby DMB2000uk on Mon May 12, 2008 12:16 pm

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).

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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby DX on Mon May 12, 2008 12:33 pm

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.
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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby Zertz on Mon May 12, 2008 5:27 pm

They're right on what they published ;)

But they did forget about the whole point of buying a discrete GPU :roll:
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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby DaIceMan on Wed May 14, 2008 9:02 pm

DX wrote: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".
Times... they are a' changin'. New specs to come soon.

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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby DemonicDerek on Wed May 14, 2008 11:21 pm

If you ask me this looks like "Biased, Skewed, FIxed..." is written all over it!
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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby ibleet on Thu May 15, 2008 12:36 am

Its just propaganda...not much you can do about it except ignore it.
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Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit

Postby w00fd06 on Thu May 15, 2008 6:31 pm

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.
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