The GT300/Fermi Thread

[saaya]

NV makes bucket of money off of quadro already. This looks like it might open new doors for revenue because of the added flexibility of the new architecture in addition to the added performance.

I think NV is to some extent correct in brushing off the lead AMD has right now in the directx 11 market. 2 million gpu sounds like alot but even if AMD was making a 100 dollar profit on each card, that would be 200 million dollars(and its probably alot less than this, likely half, considering the graphic card makers have to make money). That not that much money in the grand scheme of things(considering the amount of R and D AMD has to sink in) and although they will pick up some marketshare, if fermi is good enough, it can steal that marketshare back.

if you think ati making 100$ per card is bad then how about the GTX260 below 200$? how much is nvidia making on those for the past months? :P

The worrying aspect of fermi at this point is power consumption and scalability. If fermi can't be scaled down to the under 300 dollar market, it's going be ignoring most consumers. NV has to keep the general populous happy, to keep its partners happy. Power consumption is going to be an issue because eventually this thing has to be going in laptops. With more and more laptops being sold compared to desktops, ignoring the mobile markets for a year would be totally stupid since the margins on laptop parts are insane. And of course yields need to get up asap.

dont know what you mean the entry level and laptop 300 parts have been out for weeks already, so nvidia has those segments covered...