More on Nvidia RealityServer GPGPU, still nothing on consumer gaming.

http://hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA [...] or-iPhone/

The article is on RealityServer, a cloud computing company which offers the ability to play full scale graphics on demanding games... from your iPhone. The concept has been around for a while, and is quite interesting. They've managed to get Crysis to play on an iPhone, in it's full yet miniaturized glory. It shows of the power of how cloud computing can give full feature solutions to mobile devices.

All this is cool and impressive. But the interest I'm having is with the trend of how Nvidia's news continues to center on GPGPU computing, instead of mainstream gaming GPU technology. Nvidia is putting a lot of marketing dollars into GPGPU solutions. This one happens to be on niche cloud computing using Tesla architecture.

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It seems to me that most of the people on these boards could care less about GPGPU. They'll never use Tesla in what they use their computer for. They don't use GPGPU technolgy unless they have Folding@Home running as their screen saver. As things drag on without any GT300 gaming benchmarks, and a spike of Tesla marketing articles... I get the feeling that Nvidia is focusing more on the GPGPU market than on gaming. Of course, they will sell consumer grade graphics cards. But all the news on GT300 architecture points towards the cards being sold primarily as commercial solutions... which also happen to work with gamer graphics. Personally, I think this is a great branch into a new market. There a tons of educational, commercial, and government information centers that can use this technology.

The point is, if this market works Nvidia should not be concerned about ATI's current market position on gaming GPUs. There's more profit to be had with Tesla solutions, than mainstream gamers. Sure, they'll sell GPUs for mainsteam gaming. But they won't need them to sell graphics GPUs except to keep a public face for marketing their commercial Tesla GPGPUs

But will it make cents for them to do this?
As Anand points out, and I agree, its sink or swim whether this takes off or not, and all nVidia has done is move away from a familiar market