Originally Posted by
DilTech
Dr. Who, I'm sure you realize why so many nay-sayers...
You see, the graphics war, to many of us, is far more interesting than the cpu war has ever been. The cpu war is pretty cut-dry for most of our needs, we either go with 1 company for budget or the other for performance and if we're going to game on the system we generally don't have to worry much about which brand we buy from right now on cpus, which is why Intel wants in the gpu war in the first place. With GPU's things change, on the other hand.
1 card can absolutely MURDER in every game, then comes a new game and the tide completely changes, or a driver comes out and everything completely changes. As such, when it comes to gpu's everyone is ALWAYS on a "put up or shut up" kick. Reason being? Every time in the graphics market that we heard huge things about a design for an extended period of time before the release, it's failed. Remember the R600? Remember the FX5800? Yeah...
Now you see, we've been hearing this and that about LRB for quite awhile...I seem to recall hearing it's coming soon when I bought my old 8800gtx. Here we are, 3 years later, and the only thing we've seen is a limited ray Ray Trace demo of poor quality that ran pretty slow and the camera never moved a notch. You really can't blame people for being skeptical at this point because frankly this isn't a situation like other companies. People are saying NVidia have nothing because the 5870 launched less than a week ago, and intel have had us waiting for years...
Yes, Intel has proven themselves, everywhere but one place... The gpu market, which is exactly where they're trying to go. Intel doesn't exactly have anything at all to show for themselves when it comes to said market, as their IGP's are royally under-powered and actually cited by major game developers as part of the reason for the collapse of the PC gaming industry. Not a good start, especially for the enthusiast market. Just notice these guys want numbers, and they want them yesterday, most don't understand that telling performance early is SUICIDE as your competition knows what they're preparing for in that case. Like I pointed out earlier, they're grilling NVidia (and NVidia has had a VERY solid track record as of late when it comes to their new architectures for gpus) just because ATi launched early and caught them off guard. Don't think they're going to give intel any special treatment just because of conroe... They'll instead remind you how long it took for intel to go to conroe.
TL; DR version - Don't announce a GPU over 3 years in advance, delay it, and show a demo that does nothing for anyone watching and on top of that runs slow and the camera doesn't move. You are liable to get grilled by the enthusiast community for doing so.
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