Quote Originally Posted by AbelJemka View Post
Ok i search like you and i find real numbers!
-2006 AMD R&D : 1.205 Billions$
-2006 ATI R&D :458 Millions$
with 167 Millions$ spent Q1'06+Q2'06 and 291 Millions$ for Q3'06+Q4'06
-So 2006 AMD+ATI :1.663 Billions$
-2006 Nvidia R&D : 554 Millions$

-2007 AMD+ATI R&D : 1.847 Billions$
-2007 Nvidia R&D : 692 Millions$

-2008 AMD+ATI R&D : 1.848 Billions$
-2008 Nvidia R&D : 856 Millions$

So numbers can't lies, Nvidia had increased it R&D expense since 2006 but so had AMD+ATI.

You said that they mostly research on GPU since 2007 but you seem to forget that since 2007 Tesla and Cuda are push very hard by Nvidia so they must eat some not negligeable ressources and that Nvidia is also promoting Tegra and Ion.
Tesla and cuda are part of the gpu research and design so they are related since they involve making the Gpu more powerful. Its obvious those from those numbers NV should be spending substantially more if the ratio's mean anything from the 2006 numbers of AMD + ATI.

If we look at those numbers AMD spent 2006-2007 spent 11% more and between 2007-2008 they didn't increase spending at all. Compare this to NV who spent 2006-2007 spent 25 percent more and 23.7% more

Not to mention AMD likely spent alot of money getting to 55nm and 40nm to first plus all the money they spent on DDR5 and DDR4 research. NV waited for all this to happen so they didn't have to spent much on research and getting there as much.

I can imagine since its AMD was running the show for the most part, I can see alot more money spent on their CPU then their GPU side, especially considering how behind they were during the conroe years, and looking at simple economics, getting that side on the better side of profitable was alot more important than getting it gpu side going.