Wow..... is it just me or does it look like Nvidia might be going broke?
I am not going to lie... these recent happenings have me a bit worried. In the past month alone, we've seen NVIDIA head to retail and drop prices on
both its desktop and workstation cards, and it just doesn't look good. On the desktop side, price drops are common, but the fact that Quadro also saw massive drops is a bit...
I don't think that Fermi was perfect, far from it, but NVIDIA did bring a lot of interesting things to the table. The problem is, Fermi came late, and an unsympathetic AMD felt the urge to continue steam-rolling it with last week's launch. Fermi still excels in some regards, but it doesn't seem to make a huge difference where pure gamers are concerned.
NVIDIA needs to do something, but I'm not quite sure what. Ideally, we need the GTX 500 series to not just be a refurnished GTX 400 series, but rather a fresh design. One that's not so power hungry, hot, and built using a trillion transistors (okay, I exaggerate). I don't think NVIDIA is in dangerous water yet, but things need to change soon to reverse its trek.
It's strange to think that a mere couple of years ago, things were stark opposite. It was AMD that was in a rut and NVIDIA that was excelling. How fickle this industry is.
