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Video Card Network EffectVideo Card Network EffectPosted Dec 12, 2007 23:55 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)In reply to: Specifying codecs for the web by gmaxwell Parent article: Specifying codecs for the web
The video card network effect is seen most in games. The current Nvidia dominance of the performance video card has resulting in games optimized to Nvidia cards. This translates to review benchmarks showing Nvidia running games faster than ATI/AMD. More gamers buy the Nvidia card, leading to game writers optimizing for it ... It also applies to game consoles. When one console offers a superior game experience, the game authors target it, the game buyers buy more of them, etc.
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Video Card Network Effect Posted Dec 13, 2007 4:48 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link] More gamers buy the Nvidia card, leading to game writers optimizing for it ... Well, it's not that simple. NVidia is also publishing very elaborate toolkits to analyze and debug performance with their drivers/hardware. Naturally game developers will optimize for nVidia because it's so much easier to do.
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