Quote Originally Posted by Andrew LB View Post
nVidia has always used the code name GK110 which actually had it's first tape out in December 2011 and was completely functional in May, 2012.
And the question is : why -then- nvidia hasn't released it around that time to completely dominate the market given that AMD would had seemed to be unable to respond for -close to-two years in a row.

Is there a weird law against monopoly which would disable one of the competitors to release something that far better from competition? It seems senseless to me that nvidia gave the chance to AMD to breathe and even momentarily take the crown (driver update), what was the point of that?