Nvidia CEO Foresees a Great Year for PC Gaming Laptops (venturebeat.com) 36
Nvidia has predicted that the year ahead would be a good one for the company, with demand for laptop gaming gear remaining strong. From a report: Looking forward, Huang said it would be a big year for gaming laptops, as Nvidia knows that more than 40 Turing-based gaming laptops (based on the GeForce RTX 2060) are poised to launch during the year. Those laptops use mid-range RTX cards based on graphics processing units (GPUs) using Nvidia's new Turing architecture -- the GeForce RTX graphics cards that can do real-time ray tracing -- that are battery efficient.
Huang acknowledged that visibility is limited. I asked him if cloud gaming would be a disruptive force during the year. But he noted that Nvidia had been providing its own cloud gaming solution, GeForce Now, with relatively little impact on the market for three years. So he said it remains to be seen if cloud gaming and the "Netflix of games" would make an impact on the market. In the meantime, he said that gaming laptops would launch.
Huang acknowledged that visibility is limited. I asked him if cloud gaming would be a disruptive force during the year. But he noted that Nvidia had been providing its own cloud gaming solution, GeForce Now, with relatively little impact on the market for three years. So he said it remains to be seen if cloud gaming and the "Netflix of games" would make an impact on the market. In the meantime, he said that gaming laptops would launch.
I respect the guy's accomplishments... (Score:4, Interesting)
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He's getting a clue from Apple on pricing. It seems fleecing is in fashion.
If I was one of the Asian manufacturers I would do something really dumb. Like make a Mali GPU chip and put it in a PCI-Express card and sell that. Seriously. There are probably even drivers already made for it because of Windows RT. Thankfully Intel (I never thought I would say this) actually got the AMD GPU design team so they might actually put a competitive product in the market in a couple of years.
NVIDIA needs to get real here.
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NVIDIA needs to get real here.
Couldn't agree more.
Cloud gaming (Score:4, Insightful)
Because people finally got dumb enough to accept not owning games and having all the stuff yanked below their feet when the service goes down?
Re:Cloud gaming (Score:4, Insightful)
I am not disagreeing with you, however looking at the other side...
Streaming cloud gaming, could mean we are not needing to spend a lot of money on expensive upgrades for game pcs, and consoles anymore.
If we can get streaming video to display in 4k with lag less then 1/60th of a second. I could see massive could server farms, doing all the rendering and streaming your frames to your pc over the network. No need upgrade your device every 4 years, because the Cloud Games would render all the stuff with the modern technology and more horse power then most of us could afford.
Now with today's technology, this seems like a bad idea, however if we can get wide area network speeds for home consumers at around 2tbs which is probably in an other 20-30 years.
(Mental note, take stock out of consumer hardware makers when I retire)
Re:Cloud gaming (Score:4, Insightful)
Now all you have to do is to get a latency of zero and unlimited bandwidth and you're actually having something like a point.
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This kind of stuff can only work in urban areas. Once you get out into the sticks, the latency gets to be too high. And even in lots of urban areas, the available internet options are all crap. I'm sure it's great in Tokyo, though, or anywhere they've got FTTH.
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20 years ago, we would say that about streaming video. We use to have waited about 20 minutes for a video to buffer to a level where it could play without a stop (for a 15 minute video at much lower resolution then today)
High speed urban internet 20 years ago was about 256kbs Today it is 1gbs (4000x faster), rural area is around 100mbs (400 times faster)
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High speed urban internet 20 years ago was about 256kbs Today it is 1gbs (4000x faster), rural area is around 100mbs (400 times faster)
Speed is not the big issue, it's latency. And if your argument is that it will be feasible in 20 years, well, I'll agree.
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I'm not in what you would call an urban area, yet I use cloud gaming almost every day. I've been beta-testing this nVidia GeForce Now service and it's pretty spectacular. Now, I'm in a college town, and I think there are GeForce Now servers not to far from me (I'm on Cali's Central Coast). I play shooters against people who are not using cloud gaming, and I'm not seeing any problem or scorin
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Stanford? Scruz? Either way, highly affluent. I'm sure there are exceptions like that, but in general, it's pretty true.
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spend a lot of money on expensive upgrades
If you're spending a lot of money on expensive upgrades you're massively doing it wrong.
Nvidia needs to start making mobo chip sets again. (Score:2)
I used to buy motherboards based on it having an Nvidia chipset. Late Socket 7 AMD use taught me the value of buying by the chipset.
If Nvidia were to start making desktop (or laptop) chipsets again I would very seriously consider buying those first. It worked out well for me during the early Athlon era I believe it was.
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May not be the same way they were, but they still exist. One of my motherboards for instance can do CrossFire but not SLI. That makes sense from AMDs perspective, but another chipset would allow for either.
It's also the chipset that enable Thunderbolt support [pcgamer.com].
So the prices for said laptops... (Score:2)
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Yeah. The coin rig bubble popped. How about they just reduce their expectations or slash costs instead?
The rent is too damn high! (Score:2)
Seriously, I'm a middle aged guy who still enjoys the occasional computer game. I'm primarily a Mac user, which means I'm locked out of running most of the good new titles on that platform. And I really don't play console games much. We have a PS4, but the kids pretty much take it over -- and that's fine with me. I don't really want my gaming on display in the living room on a 60" TV, or want to sit on the couch instead of a computer chair while playing one. And I never got used to the controllers vs a ke
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Their primary audience for "gaming laptops" in general to my understanding is "young adult males". Basically the 18-30 age bracket. Secondary is probably people of my age, between 30 and 40. Basically gamers who got used to having solid framerates with their gaming, and can afford to pay for it.
You don't need to upgrade it often either. Last generation of GPUs lasted almost three years. My GTX 960 based laptop broke recently, so I went and bought a on sale 1060 one. The upper high end ones that feature GTX
Now, ditch Quadro (Score:2)
Dear Nvidia:
Please make Quadro cards a true, compromise-free superset of your best gaming cards that can, if desired, run gaming-tweaked firmware... or beat some sense into companies like Lenovo and Dell & convince them to NOT blindly force consumers into choosing between EITHER "shit integrated graphics" OR "Quadro that costs $2,000 and sucks for gaming".
For my past two laptop purchases, I've been forced to choose between either sacrificing a good tactile scissor-switch keyboard with pointer stick, set
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Pipe dream or wishful thinking? (Score:2)
I'm not a gamer and do not follow the market for gaming laptops. (I actually do have one gaming laptop, a Lenovo Y50 and it's crap. No more sound, no more SD card slot, housing cracked by hinges and garbage screen to begin with, but I didn't buy it for gaming.)
His statement just seems to have that air of "I really hope this happens because the market for crypto mining has fallen off a cliff."
When was it a bad year for PC gaming ? Mining ? (Score:1)