[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]NVIDIA might be in a death spiral now, but it's probably a little too soon. Their revenues are shrinking, their opportunities diminishing (with the chipset business), and their market position quickly evaporating. They still have enough money to design a next generation, but if that's also a failure, which is all NVIDIA has been able to produce for some years now, it could be the beginning of the end for NVIDIA.
Give ATI their due, they are just marching to a faster beat. On top of that, they seem to have a much better idea of what works within a transistor budget, and have been much quicker in introducing newer technologies. Put them altogether, and you get news like this, and the news we got a few days ago about NVIDIA's revenue being much lower than predictedcitation]
1. nvidia has not produced just failures for "years" now as you put it , the gf 8000 series and the 200 series were huge sucesses when stood next to ati's competing cards at the time ,seriously don't exagerate, they produced two failures in reccent history , the gf 9000 series (not to bad since it was based off the 8000 which stayed competitive with ati products at the time) and now the 400s really only one whole year of failure there. so i just don'tsee were they have produced only failures for years now ???
w, ati has not been quicker with newer technologies really they got teh jump on one technology shift and that is it , (dx 10.1 was no huge techno leap and nvidia intentionally didnt suppirt because liek most folks they saw it as apointless oh hum update to dx 10 which is what it was).ATI only beat them to dx 11 meanwhile ati is still struggling to get some form of physics processing runing on thier chips for the past three years while nvidia has had physX out for that time period.
your comment is highly biased at best and compeltely misleading at worse , the way you talk about it , some one would be inclined to think nvidia hasn't done any thign in teh last ten eyars cept sit around and hold each others d---s which is just not the case as much as i ahte to admit it , but truth be told nvidia has been far more innovative tech wise compared to ATI
now before you go blasting me ,I for the most part prefer ATI cards , teh ciolor pallette is better adn the images always look more vivid on ati , and i love it when they are on top, but i'm no fanboy , and i ackwoledge teh fact that nvidia is nio laughing clown , occasionaly they do release a product at a veryu sweet price and more often than not that card will out perform the ati counterpart , (such as the Gf 9600 GT vs the radeon HD 3850 for a good few months when these cards were the awsome "card for mid end, the gf card was a good 30 bucks less)