stef80 wrote on 2023-01-03, 17:18:
Not many of them are still around. It's very significant card (HD2900) in ATIs history and probably the reason why they got absorbed by AMD. First unified shader architecture by ATI.
I wouldnt say architecture was bad, they just messed up execution. Proof lies in HD3870 and HD4670 which had basically same architecture and specs, with some tveaks, but were way more efficient.
Well he said that, not me... But i think ATi was OUTsold by nVIDIA all the time, no matter the generation... nVIDIA just had outstanding marketing, and brand recognition,w hile ATi was the exact opposite, not that they were bad, they just did not had the mind share i think... I also think ATi sold the company, since they were thinking they cant compete with nVIDIA in the long term, or jsut the deal for 5 billion dollars was very appealing to them.
Yes i know that too, before the GEforce 8 and specially 8800 cards, ATi was better then nVIDIA most of the times, after pre Radeon cards such as Rage, when they got the Radeon branding their cards was very competitive, and later on even alot faster... The Radeon x1800XTX and later on x1950XTX was better then GEforce 6 and 7 series cards, but then nVIDIA pulled out the insanely OP 8800 GT/X and crushed what ATi had... It is really sad to me too, that ATi/AMD went from 50:50 market share vs nVIDIA to this BS today where nVIDIA hold 80%+ market share and like 150% mind share, and AMD holds what some miserable shitty 20%... These RDNA III buggy cards with inconsistent preformance, and even broken cooler, wont help at all with that....
Too bad ATi never went on the road as nVIDIA did in terms of brand recognition, marketing and visual BS such as Tessellation, PhysX and Game Works... But at least AMD is back on the CPU side, and is not only Intel, like used to be after Phenom II... Nowadays is like back with Athlon64 days, when Intel was worse, and AMD was better, now is similar... But Intel was ezz to be beaten, since Intel did beat themselves, being lazy and lying on old glory of the Core architecture... While no matter i dont like both Intel and nVIDIA as a companies, nVIDIA is not as dumb as Intel, they wont stop innovating, and they pull every time some strong cards... So for AMD to get on the same level vs nVIDIA will be ALOT harder, then vs Intel.. Since Intel did nothing, they expected the new ZEN processors to be another FX FAILdozer, and they did not prepare... While nVIDIA always has something up their sleeve, no matter i hate them so much, as a company, marketing and architectures they are very strong...
Also bad Intel will abandon the discrete GPU market, i hear rumors that after Battlemage, there wont be more discrete cards, since it is costing too much, and they dont make profit from it.... I wonder why 3Dfx wont make an return, since 20 years have passed, and now they can buy back from nVIDIA their assets, or they can use them too, since there is some years in the agreement, when they got purchased...
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