I have seen a ton of posts here and on other boards complaining about how much the GeForce 3 will cost, with most of them leveling criticism at NVIDIA for being greedy and/or Intel-like. Consider the following points:
*The only hard price I have seen on a GF 3 board is the 3D Prophet III, $529 on Hercules website. I would assume the street price will be below $500.
*The GF 3 uses about 57 million transistors, making it more complicated than any desktop <i> processor </i> in existence, and MUCH more complicated than any other GPU (graphics processing unit).
*The price of a GF 3 based card includes several things besides the GPU, none of which NVIDIA makes a profit on.
*The GF 3 is the most advanced card on the market.
*The Pentium 4 (42 million transistors) has a street price of $480 in it's most advanced version (1.5 GHz). This is for only the CPU, and obviously doesn't include motherboard or RAM.
*The video card is currently the most important link in producing 3D graphics, and it becomes more important (i.e., the rest of the computer has to do less work) with each new generation of card. This is a change that has been hard to get used to--video cards didn't used to be this important–but it is very true today.
*The RAM on graphics cards is very expensive. Again, NVIDIA has nothing to do with the RAM.
I would be quite interested to know how much the GF 3 GPU costs the card manufactures, how much the RAM costs and how much profit the card manufactures make. If anybody knows any of this please enlighten me.
--> Now considering all this, why is the GeForce 3 too expensive? Is NVIDIA really like Intel in their pricing schemes?
Post agreements, disagreements, flames, rants, etc. below.
Cheers,
Warden
*A note on transistors: the transistor count has a direct bearing on how technologically advanced the chip is, which would influence the cost of designing it, and on the die size, which greatly influences the cost of manufacturing it.
*The only hard price I have seen on a GF 3 board is the 3D Prophet III, $529 on Hercules website. I would assume the street price will be below $500.
*The GF 3 uses about 57 million transistors, making it more complicated than any desktop <i> processor </i> in existence, and MUCH more complicated than any other GPU (graphics processing unit).
*The price of a GF 3 based card includes several things besides the GPU, none of which NVIDIA makes a profit on.
*The GF 3 is the most advanced card on the market.
*The Pentium 4 (42 million transistors) has a street price of $480 in it's most advanced version (1.5 GHz). This is for only the CPU, and obviously doesn't include motherboard or RAM.
*The video card is currently the most important link in producing 3D graphics, and it becomes more important (i.e., the rest of the computer has to do less work) with each new generation of card. This is a change that has been hard to get used to--video cards didn't used to be this important–but it is very true today.
*The RAM on graphics cards is very expensive. Again, NVIDIA has nothing to do with the RAM.
I would be quite interested to know how much the GF 3 GPU costs the card manufactures, how much the RAM costs and how much profit the card manufactures make. If anybody knows any of this please enlighten me.
--> Now considering all this, why is the GeForce 3 too expensive? Is NVIDIA really like Intel in their pricing schemes?
Post agreements, disagreements, flames, rants, etc. below.
Cheers,
Warden
*A note on transistors: the transistor count has a direct bearing on how technologically advanced the chip is, which would influence the cost of designing it, and on the die size, which greatly influences the cost of manufacturing it.
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