The game market takes no prisoners
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The gaming market is huge and takes no prisoners
As the headlines and some investors' money slowly fades, and the echoes of share price surge from the GameStop revolt bubble continue to reverberate, the PC gaming market is worth about $35 billion and growing at about 5%, while the mobile gaming market has lower ASPs, but orders of magnitude more players and is projected to grow 20% and reach $120 billion by the … Read more
Gaming at 5k
When I said I can’t wait to try gaming on this, they said, Jon, it’s a 60-Hz monitor, not designed for gaming. Yeah, but it’s also < 5 ms monitor and it only refreshed every 16 ms; so what? The games I play only refresh in 33 ms. I’m not a twitcher, at least when gaming. I don’t need a … Read more
Nvidia’s quadratic processor, the NV1
Founded in early 1993, Nvidia set out to revolutionize the PC and console gaming market with 3D. They succeeded beyond even their wildest dreams, but not without a few bumps and bruises to make them smarter and stronger. The company was founded on the plan to develop single-chip media accelerators for interactive multimedia on PCs.¹ “We intend to focus our … Read more
The dark side of game streaming
If I can take my crappy 10-year-old Pentium with its no-name AIB, put in a 5g NIC for $55, and play 2020 FPS games, why would I ever buy a new PC or game card? This is a question many hardware game suppliers are asking themselves. Cloud gaming goes back to OnLive in 2003 and has progressed as bandwidth speeds … Read more
KFC is a PC, not a console
Just in time for the holidays—because that’s when this bubbled up, the KFConsole has arrived via the Coolermaster site. No, you didn’t know you needed a gaming machine to warm your chicken while you play, but now that it’s here… The word on the internet is that the KFConsole “is real.” As in a real promotion cooked up by KFC and … Read more
What’s driving GPU sales—COVID, games, or Crypto?
We’ve been tracking GPU and before that graphics controller shipments for decades, and we think we have a sense of their trends and seasonal behavior. Most recently, our Market Watch report for Q3 2020 reveals unusual buying patterns for graphics boards and we naturally wondered, what’s up? Look at the following chart that shows shipments for the past 15 … Read more
Covid-19 and games drive AIB market to new highs
AMD gains in market share
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti —a terrific value for gamers
The RTX 3060 Ti debuted at $399, and Nvidia claimed it to be 40% faster on average than its predecessor, the GeForce RTX 2060 Super. The RTX 3060 Ti Founder’s Edition is a tremendous addition to the GeForce RTX 30 Series, but we couldn’t match Nvidia’s performance claims in all cases. We came close in game-only FPS tests—35%. The new … Read more
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti —a terrific value for gamers
Lots of performance and not too expensive
Nvidia’s Q3 FY21 results
Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended 31 Oct 2020, of $4.7 billion, up 57 percent from $3 billion a year earlier, and up 22 percent from $3.9 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $2.8 billion, up 34% from last quarter and up 25% from last year. “Nvidia is firing on all cylinders, … Read more
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT is a winner
AMD has announced its new line of Radeon boards based on the Navi 21 GPU architecture. We have heard rumors and hints from AMD about “Big”-Navi for over a year. Our first examination of the new AIB indicates it was worth the wait. AMD hasn’t been a contender in the high-end for a while. As a result, Nvidia has enjoyed … Read more