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Nvidia Loses GPU Market Share to AMD and Intel, Bets Everyth ...

Nvidia has continued to lose vast swathes of its graphics chip market share, dropping a further 3% in the first quarter of 2011 to 20%; down from 28% this time last year. The decline, which is closely linked to Nvidia's decision to pull out of the chipset and integrated graphics processor (IGP) market, resulted in AMD gaining 3% in 2010, giving it 25% of the market, and Intel -- the behemoth that it is -- picked up a full 5% in 2010 to reaffirm its domination of the market with a 55% share.

In 2009, Intel pulled the plug on Nvidia's rights to produce chipsets and IGPs that could communicate with its Core iX (Nehalem) chips. Nvidia was already on its way out of the chipset market -- the GeForce 320M was its last offering -- but Intel sealed the deal. A vicious court case ensued -- there was a lot at stake for both companies -- and a settlement was finally reached at the beginning of 2011. Intel had to pay Nvidia $1.5 billion -- but in exchange, Nvidia lost all rights to use Intel's DMI and QPI technologies, and to the x86 processor architecture.

But that's all right: With Tegra, Tegra 2, and the upcoming Denver (Tegra 3) system-on-a-chip, Nvidia is fully invested in ARM. While the first iteration never really took off, Tegra 2 is the platform that most 2011 Android tablets will use. Tegra 3, when it's released, will feature a quad-core CPU, a 12-core GPU, and hardware decoding of 1080p video. Furthermore, Nvidia has just bought baseband specialist Icera for $400 million, which means a Qualcomm-like all-in-one smartphone chip will almost certainly appear in 2012. With so many baked-in features, Tegra definitely makes for an appealing smartphone and tablet chip -- which is fortunate, as its raw processing power is comparable to a 4-year-old Intel Core Duo chip .

In other news, Nvidia still maintains a 60% share of the "prestige" desktop graphics card market, and shows no sign of losing any further ground to AMD/ATI -- but that's not necessarily a good thing. The discrete graphics processor market -- graphics cards for desktops and laptops -- is a bad place to be right now. PC sales are slowing, video games consoles have usurped PCs as the de facto platform for gaming, and the gap between discrete and integrated solutions is shrinking. Sales-wise, the next big boost for discrete graphics processors won't come until the next-generation Xbox and PlayStation -- and even then, it wouldn't be surprising to see those consoles use integrated solutions instead.

Η νέα έκδοση του GPU-Z | ifeed

Το GPU-Z είναι ένα ενδιαφέρον αλλά και χρήσιμο πρόγραμμα για την απεικόνιση πληθώρας πληροφοριών σχετικά με την κάρτα γραφικών που χρησιμοποιεί το σύστημα σας.

Ενδεικτικά, ορισμένες από τις πληροφορίες και τα στοιχεία που δίνονται από την εφαρμογή αυτή, είναι το όνομα της κάρτας γραφικών σας, το GPU, το die size, η μνήμη της κάρτας, η ονομαστική συχνότητα λειτουργίας και η τεχνολογία που ενσωματώνει.

Επιπλέον σε αρκετά μοντέλα που κυκλοφορούν πλέον στην αγορά και τα οποία διαθέτουν τους κατάλληλους αισθητήρες, δείχνουν την τρέχουσα συχνότητα λειτουργίας και τη θερμοκρασία.

Η νέα έκδοση που κυκλοφόρησε, η GPU-Z 0.4.5, εκτός από το ότι υποστηρίζει αρκετά νέα μοντέλα που κυκλοφόρησαν, έχει βελτιωθεί και αρκετά στο θέμα των bugs, τα οποία απ’ότι φαίνεται ήταν υπεύθυνα για την μη αποτελεσματική λειτουργία του προγράμματος.

Οι αλλαγές που πραγματοποιήθηκαν από την μετάβαση της 0.4.4 σε 0.4.5, σύμφωνα με το site του κατασκευαστή , είναι οι εξής:

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