I think you have to be a real hardware geek to find this stuff funny, so it’s no surprise that it made me smile. Although it’s not exactly credited, it’s pretty clear that this is a low-key effort by AMD to discredit NVIDIA — the cartoon casts a bediapered dinosaur as NVIDIA’s troubled last generation of video cards and makes fun of their limited and faulty hardware.
Whether it’s “official” or not is hard to say, but it’s fun no matter what.
[via HardOCP]
So I know its just a cartoon but…How true is the subject matter? They make nvidia cards seem broken and incredibly inferior. Are they that bad? My dual GTX280’s crush everything in their path. I dunno, I seem to see just as many failure/compatibility complaints on the AMD side as the Nvidia side. I’m certainly not a fanboy, I want the best hardware for the dollar…but deciding on GPU’s can be a crapshoot!
While ATI’s arguably doing a bit better than NVIDIA as far as price to power goes, I think this video is a stretch. NVIDIA’s cards are still nice, it’s just that ATI’s are nicer.
Oh, I agree with you guys, it’s inflammatory and ridiculous – I just think AMD is taking its short time in the sun with the 4850 and 4870 triumphant and using it to maximum effect. After all, NVIDIA did have a few lackluster and/or faulty cards over the last 6-8 months.