• Ryu83087@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    This guy is a joke.

    Nvidia is the best because the competition has always failed to focus on the R&D and the importance of GPU accelerators. This goes back a long time now, 20+ years of companies just not putting nearly as much effort or even showing interest in pushing this field… and Nvidia has been doing it ever since their first chips… and really started to stand out with the TNT1, and Quadro 1. Meanwhile companies known for their videocards ignored 3d acceleration all together or half assed it like Matrox, ATI, etc.

    I lived through the SGI days as a 3d artist. I was using 3d accelerators before Windows had any opengl hardware worth considering. Microsoft bought softimage, and windows needed some serious opengl hardware if it was going to match SGI… sure there were some companies doing it but none of them could provide the quality of drivers and hardware at an affordable price. Nvidia is who we grew up depending on, even after SGI went tits up and Nvidia gave SGI’s engineers a place to continue their work…

    ATI was unreliable, matrox was useless, 3d systems etc… none of them could keep up with nvidia and to this day, that is still true.

    So whatever this article says about Nvidia preventing others from making good hardware is complete bullshit. They all had 20+ years to do it and couldn’t and didn’t for various reasons, one of which is just the lack of vision and leadership.

    Don’t blame Nvidia for CUDA or their fantastic GPUs because the rest of the industry was caught with their pants down and still can’t figure out how to do it.

    It’s just simply too late to catch up to the decades of R&D nvidia has done. Their expertise got us here and they’ve been reliable. Every 3d artist I’ve known from the 90s to now rely on nvidia hardware because they’re dependable and strive to push and innovate where other’s simple couldnt and would not.

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      1 year ago

      It’s just simply too late to catch up to the decades of R&D nvidia has done. Their expertise got us here and they’ve been reliable. Every 3d artist I’ve known from the 90s to now rely on nvidia hardware because they’re dependable and strive to push and innovate where other’s simple couldnt and would not.

      consistently realized and and delivered customer value: the shakiest of moats /s

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        1 year ago

        People act absolutely bewildered when you suggest Nvidia has such a high marketshare partially because they consistently deliver the best products.

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      1 year ago

      You are correct. And yet very wrong. This kind of thing can be seen as a misleading investors if they never plan to actually deliver. The problem is that once everything is done, they would have accomplished the objective and only investors that feel like they were mislead could have standing to sue. Of course, if they actually plan to deliver on those plans, then everything will be hunky-dory.