Yesterday shares of Nvidia ( NVDA ) were on fire. Four pieces of news fed on themselves to cause a big up move on heavy volume.
Nvidia introduced with fanfare its new graphics card GTX 590. GTX 590 is the world?s fastest and quietest DirectX 11 graphics card ever built. The card contains dual-512 GTX 500 GPUs and a custom vapor chamber for cooling.
I am an electrical engineer and enjoy keeping up with new technology. GTX 590 is truly impressive from a technical point of view. From an investment point of view, the hyped impact of the new card is at best dubious. The table shows that the performance of GTX 590 is evolutionary and not revolutionary. Radeon cards are made by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which acquired ATI.
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The question is how many people will shell out over $600 for the incremental performance improvement
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