Nvidia Threatens to Become A Monopoly

[SickBeast]

I doubt Denver is going to have much impact on the desktop unless nvidia uses it the way they originally intended to - as an x86 emulator.

Well it seems as though nVidia is starting to port many PC games over to Android. Once their CPU is good enough they will be able to use their discreet GPUs to create an Android gaming platform that can compete with PCs. Denver is already pretty close to Intel in terms of IPC. They just need to improve it more, add more cores, and ramp up the clockspeed. I say in 2 years they are going to put up a really good fight.

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Speaking as someone who spent several years with a high end unlocked intel hex core, I can tell you 6/8 cores is pretty meaningless in gaming.

Fair enough. 4 unlocked cores sure would be nice in the low end setups, though.