Majestic Lizard
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So far...
1) Nvidia has renamed a low end card, the Geforce 210, into the Geforce 310. This is misleading because it is not a new video card and is not properly part of the new Geforce line-up.
2) There are credible reports that their fabrication process for the high-end DX11 Geforce 300 Series GPU is defective and that their yields were so low (96.5 percent defective) that they may not ever release it.
3) Nvidia damaged its credibility by presenting a fake (non-working) video card as a working prototype at a recent press release.
4) This lack of credibility was further compounded by a photo in an Nvidia blog which was supposed to depict a working Geforce 300 series card, except there is no way to prove that picture in the photo was actually being generated by the prototype card shown and not a different card off camera.
I would really like to hear some good news about the Geforce 300 series, but I cannot find any.
Even bad news would be better than no news at all.
I keep hearing Q1, but recently there have been some disturbing trends with Nvidia. There sales have dropped drastically in 2009 and they recently announced they were no longer going to be manufacturing chipsets for motherboards. It really does seem that the writing is on the wall for Nvidia to go the way of 3DFX.
I realize that Nvidia has renamed cards before, but when you consider that THE ONLY 300 series card is simply a low-end renamed 200 series card, it puts the whole situation in a new light.
So far...
1) Nvidia has renamed a low end card, the Geforce 210, into the Geforce 310. This is misleading because it is not a new video card and is not properly part of the new Geforce line-up.
2) There are credible reports that their fabrication process for the high-end DX11 Geforce 300 Series GPU is defective and that their yields were so low (96.5 percent defective) that they may not ever release it.
3) Nvidia damaged its credibility by presenting a fake (non-working) video card as a working prototype at a recent press release.
4) This lack of credibility was further compounded by a photo in an Nvidia blog which was supposed to depict a working Geforce 300 series card, except there is no way to prove that picture in the photo was actually being generated by the prototype card shown and not a different card off camera.
I would really like to hear some good news about the Geforce 300 series, but I cannot find any.
Even bad news would be better than no news at all.
I keep hearing Q1, but recently there have been some disturbing trends with Nvidia. There sales have dropped drastically in 2009 and they recently announced they were no longer going to be manufacturing chipsets for motherboards. It really does seem that the writing is on the wall for Nvidia to go the way of 3DFX.
I realize that Nvidia has renamed cards before, but when you consider that THE ONLY 300 series card is simply a low-end renamed 200 series card, it puts the whole situation in a new light.