Re: AMD vs Intel - Ghz & performance question


"David Kanter" <dkanter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> You could say that Nvidia is partisan to AMD. That can only be prooved
>> if Intel came out with a competing SLI chipset.
>
> No, actually Jen-Hsun Huang already said it, what's good for AMD is
> good for Nvidia.
>
>> But so far there's no
>> Intel chipset capable of SLI yet, despite the fact that Intel and
>> Nvidia swapped patents in that announcement above. So one should think
>> that an Intel SLI chipset should've emerged by now. I can only guess
>> the reason there isn't one now is because Intel can't get any better
>> performance out of their chipset's SLI than Nvidia can.
>
> LOL. Do you realize how long it takes to design a chipset? Besides,
> Intel is strictly in the high volume business for x86 chipsets; they
> prefer to leave ultra high performance to their partners (IBM for
> servers, possibly nvidia for desktop).
>
> DK

yes I realize how long it takes to design a chipset. Although it varies
somewhat with how much overtime the team can stand.

But what is the point of this SLI thing? Play games faster? Is that
really that lucrative a niche for Intel? They are selling the processors
anyway.

del
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