With both NVIDIA’s Fermi and Apple’s iPad released recently, people are asking what techies think of these gizmos. I’ve read reviews, I’ve seen videos, and I’ve tried to formulate a sufficiently cynical reason as to why both these products are inferior/silly/completely out of place in today’s market. I can’t come up with one.

As most of you should know, nVidia doesn’t just manufacture video cards. It also has a motherboard chipset division, and produces mobile chipsets like Tegra, which is found in the Zune HD.  While ATI has been taking all the headlines with RV870 and DirectX11, and most of the nVidia partners are set to discontinue their [...]

It looks like we’ll getting a repeat of the 4-series versus GT200 battle, with a twist. Where nVidia went with a huge, power hungry core and the performance crown, ATI went for affordability and power efficiency on the smaller 55nm process, while nVidia were still using 65nm. ATI’s approach gained them a lot of market [...]

This time last year, if you wanted a high-end graphics card, Nvidia’s 8800 series was by far the best choice; ATI’s 38xx series just couldn’t keep up. Then, when Nvidia released their GT200 series cards, the performance bar was set even higher. Massive graphics cards with massive performance, massive power draw, and a massive price [...]