r/pcmasterrace • u/AaronDotCom • May 03 '24

TIL AMD almost bought Nvidia before settling with ATI in 2006 News/Article

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2012/02/22/amd-talked-with-nvidia-about-acquisition-before-grabbing-ati/?sh=7ced24a87a79
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u/SameRandomUsername PCMR i7+Strix 4080+VR, Never Sony/Apple/AMD or DELL May 03 '24

by 2006 nvidia was already leaps ahead of ati

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u/handymanshandle R7 5700X3D, 7900XT, 64GB DDR4, Huawei MateView 3840x2560 May 03 '24

Nvidia was quite behind ATI for a while in the early 2000s. The Radeon 9000, X300 and X1000 series were very competitive with their Nvidia counterparts at their worst and completely slammed them at their best. It took the venerable generation-defining 8000 series and the initial fumbling of TeraScale to really turn the tables for Nvidia. That double whammy set ATI back right as AMD bought them up.

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u/SameRandomUsername PCMR i7+Strix 4080+VR, Never Sony/Apple/AMD or DELL May 03 '24

By 2005 nVidia already had the 7800GTX... All ATI could do at that time was melting gpus and I was one of those that got burned by those shitty ATI GPUs. All cause I followed an ex friend's advice to go ATI.

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u/stereopticon11 MSI Liquid X 4090 | AMD 5900X May 03 '24

the x1900xtx was a great competitor to the 7000 series. the 8000 series however made a mockery of ATi