11-26-2015, 08:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-26-2015, 08:22 PM by RolloTheGreat.)
(11-26-2015, 07:18 AM)SickBeast Wrote: You have a valid point Rollo however you're not pointing out the fact that the progress would be much faster with proper competition from AMD. We are lucky that they have been duking it out for so long. If AMD ever goes down, though, which it looks like they will, I fully expect nVidia to slow down their development just because they can afford to.
I'll add this to what Ben said:
I don't think NVIDIA can afford to slow down development for the reasons stated. They exist to make profit for the stockholders and if they start dribbling out parts not as many people are willing to upgrade to, or stretch the time between upgrades, stock holders will call for changes, people will lose jobs.
What your saying "could" be true if NVIDIA was in the position of having a somewhat cut down part like the 980 and a full part like the 980Ti/Titan X done at the same time. They could then stagger releases to add development time while maintaining sales volume and profits. (and this would not be possible if AMD had the FuryX released before the 980) So in that sense, releases could be slowed a bit. (but a 980 is almost the same performance as two GTX680s, and over 20% faster than a 780, so a nice upgrade over those cards)
The other thing about it is I've never bought the "competition drives innovation" in this industry. These parts are basically inventions that take a long time to bring to market. You can't tell inventors,"Invent faster! The competition has beat us!" That's why AMD owned the CPU performance for a couple years while intel scrambled. (even though intel had more money and staff by far)
Theoretically someone from Power VR could invent something that we all buy for the next three years, maybe forever.