Friday, January 27th 2012
NVIDIA Engaged in PsyOps Against HD 7970: Chinese Forum
A lot has been said about NVIDIA's upcoming product with which it will compete against AMD's Radeon HD 7900 series, except of course, pictures, benchmarks, and so on. Chinese tech forum ChipHell accused NVIDIA of deploying shills across forums to shape public opinion about the already-launched HD 7900 series, towards waiting for NVIDIA's competitive product, these include blind talk about imaginary performance superiority, killer price, etc.
Chinese forums have recognized patterns in this spurt of anti-AMD and pro-HD 7970 imaginary-competitor product posts and banned scores of user accounts engaged in this activity. There's a very potent reason why ChipHell's observations shouldn't be met with cynicism, or made light of. In China, competing factions in the ever-ruling Communist party have been known to use what is known as "the 50 cent army", where for a pittance, scores of internet forum posters can be engaged to perform coordinated PsyOps, to shape public opinion, and maintain public support. It is only natural, then, that competing companies in the extremely competitive Chinese domestic market resort to similar tactics, including those distributing NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, or, as Chip Hell alleges, NVIDIA itself.
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Chinese forums have recognized patterns in this spurt of anti-AMD and pro-HD 7970 imaginary-competitor product posts and banned scores of user accounts engaged in this activity. There's a very potent reason why ChipHell's observations shouldn't be met with cynicism, or made light of. In China, competing factions in the ever-ruling Communist party have been known to use what is known as "the 50 cent army", where for a pittance, scores of internet forum posters can be engaged to perform coordinated PsyOps, to shape public opinion, and maintain public support. It is only natural, then, that competing companies in the extremely competitive Chinese domestic market resort to similar tactics, including those distributing NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, or, as Chip Hell alleges, NVIDIA itself.
112 Comments on NVIDIA Engaged in PsyOps Against HD 7970: Chinese Forum
Or what if I work for AMD, god I need to get paid more money. Only a few hundred worth of hardware anymore, and feeling raped on the X1800XT.
Oh, me too! :-)
They're aiming for the best profits on mainstream, but since they released first they're raking in as much as they can as their mainstream card competes above current top-of-the-line cards.
Comon, guys. 6970 was quite a bit smaller than the 580 (389mm^2 vs 520mm^2). AMD knows that to take the performance crown from nVidia they'd need a bigger card. But they went down to 352mm^2 in the 7970. It's about margins in the mainstream and taking advantage of the quicker launch.
nVidia's GK114 will probably be right where the 7970 is, maybe quicker, maybe slower. The GK110 will definitely roll right over it. But they'll both make quite a bit of money this round as they're going to control different parts of the market.
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BTW the rumours about bulldozer were true if you overclock it like crazy(on phase change, or arctic room temps, or ln2 (LOL) while it is unreasonable to do that, it is still true. )
whereas these nvidia rumours are crazy because they are purely wishful thinking... YES I want a 300 dollar gpu the power of an 580. a 580 is fast enough!.
i'm hoping that the 7990 is 850..
the problem nvidia has a better driver staff, whereas amd has a better hardware design staff...