By contrast, shares of Intel and ATI rival Nvidia are up more than 20% over the same period.
Roxio has also worked with the big 3-D technology companies, ATI, NVIDIA and RealD to ensure that its software is compatible with the range of 3-D technologies, formats and accessories out there today.
For those who consider gaming their utmost priority, they take things one step further, telling them flat out to hold off on upgrading until ATI and NVIDIA get their software up to speed.
Stepping up to that plate, the folks at PC Perspective loaded up Vista on a pair of ATI and NVIDIA-based gaming rigs to see if one played more nicely with the OS than the other.
While AMD has been busy digesting ATI, Nvidia's share of the market for so-called discrete graphics chips has grown to 65% in the third quarter of this year, up from 50% two years ago, according to market tracker Jon Peddie Research.
Well, here's what's what: the obviously enthusiast platform aims to please by eschewing AMD's own lower performing (yet wholly owned) ATI products for NVIDIA and its nForce 680a-based chipsets (yes, we know), and will feature quad and octo-core support (yep).
For a good time with games like Far Cry or Doom you're going to have to spend that much just on the recommended graphics card from Nvidia or ATI Technologies, which will boost rendering speeds from 50 frames per second to 200.
New on that front is the company's just-announced ASM5800 (pictured above) and ASM3202 models, the former of which packs your choice of Intel Core 2 Quad or AMD Phenom II X4 processors, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, 750GB or 1TB hard drives, and ATI Radeon HD 4650 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 graphics, while the later is an AMD-only affair with a Phenom II X4 925 processor, ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics, 2GB to 8GB of RAM, and a 640GB or 750GB hard drive.
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The graphics market is now dominated by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices ' ATI division, both of which crank out so-called graphics chips built around hundreds of processor cores.
In 2007 Hewlett-Packard began selling a PC called the Blackbird 002 that allows gamers to use either a pair of Nvidia graphics cards or a pair from ati, and change between them as easily as changing socks.
In 2007 Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) began selling a PC called the Blackbird 002 that allows gamers to use either a pair of Nvidia graphics cards or a pair from ati, and change between them as easily as changing socks.
Gamers take note: AMD promises that optimized drivers will be available at launch from NVidia, 3dfx, and Matrox, with S3 and ATI drivers coming soon.
If you're scoring at home, NVIDIA currently holds the lead in single-GPU graphics cards with its GeForce GTX 580, but ATI's dual-chip Radeon HD 5970 has been holding down the absolute speed crown for a good long while.
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