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Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:44 am
by Apoptosis
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
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:41 am
by 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.
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:30 am
by skier
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
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:57 am
by 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.
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 11:16 am
by 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
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 11:33 am
by 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.
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:27 pm
by Zertz
They're right on what they published ;)
But they did forget about the whole point of buying a discrete GPU
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:02 pm
by DaIceMan
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".
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:21 pm
by DemonicDerek
If you ask me this looks like "Biased, Skewed, FIxed..." is written all over it!
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 11:36 pm
by ibleet
Its just propaganda...not much you can do about it except ignore it.
Re: Intel Says Upgrading a GPU has no benefit
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:31 pm
by 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.