A number of stories about cocky statements made by NVIDIA personnel at CeBIT have been going around. No real background have been available, other than quotes, or parts of them, until now. Expreview got their hands on two slides, comparing the GPU to the CPU, showing how NVIDIA thinks we should spend our money when upgrading. They compare how much you gain from upgrading from an Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 to an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650, with a GeForce 9800GTX, or if you upgrade with a second 9800GTX.
The graphs are of course biased towards graphics, but not entirely off either. The graph doesn’t consider overclocking potential or multi-threading to any significant degree. Other games, that actually are optimized for multiple threads, would bring bigger differences.
Even though we do agree that for a gaming rig, you should spend a fair share of the budget on the graphics card, but poking the bear that sleeps usually results in you running for the hills. NVIDIA has always been aiming high and we certainly applaud them for doing so, but is going after Intel really the right way to do so? Ballsy if nothing else.
