• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In one hand I want the Nvidia quasi monopoly to end.

    NVidia has no monopoly in the PC space. Intel + AMD combined far outnumber NVidia GPUs overall, NVidia just has certain niche markets where they dominate with high profit margins but that’s not what this story is about.

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          1 year ago

          Oh yeah absolutely. Doing GPU parallel computing for many people is synonymous with using CUDA.

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          1 year ago

          They also dominate compute.

          Yes, “certain niche markets where they dominate with high profit margins”.

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        1 year ago

        Consoles have had AMD chipsets for decades, and still do. Well, except the Switch.

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        1 year ago

        If we are talking gaming (which by no means is a niche market), nvidia absolutely dominates the GPU market. The steam survey reports a market share of 75% for nvidia gpus

        Gaming also compromises Candy Crush and Wordle which are not on Steam. The article is about a low-cost GPU, not a 4080 competitor.

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          1 year ago

          I would claim that most people that need a dedicated GPU for gaming are using steam

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            1 year ago

            I would claim that most people that need a dedicated GPU for gaming are using steam

            True but you said “If we are talking gaming (which by no means is a niche market), nvidia absolutely dominates the GPU market”. So gaming in general which includes the massive number of casuals playing simple web games and that’s what I was replying to. Gaming with dedicated GPU is a niche market compared to the sheer size of the overall PC market which has an installed base of literally billions of devices in use. So again: NVidia has no monopoly.