The video card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 is not best suited for general purpose computing (GPGPU) and significantly outperformed its rival in gaming ( Radeon HD 7970 ). Similarly, the situation of other media processor GK104, including the model GeForce GTX 690 and the accelerator Tesla K10.
Computer equipment customers are more interested in accelerators Radeon HD 7970 than in NVIDIA decisions . However, AMD video cards require the chassis height 5U (accommodates up to eight adapters), whereas for a more compact servers (1U and 2U) in the arsenal of Sunnyvale company there is no suitable products.
As a result, customers are literally forced to acquire NVIDIA accelerators. Professional level solutions traditionally bring more profit, it is not clear why AMD has not yet been announced intentions to enter the market of calculations accelerators with a product called, for example, FireStream 7970 with 6 GB of memory and support for error correcting codes (ECC).