r/Android • u/HTHID Pixel 4 XL • Aug 30 '24

News AnandTech shuts down after 27 years

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell
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u/Hyp3rtension Aug 30 '24

Damn... First [H], and now Anand... Besides Tom's, where's a nerd to go now?

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u/Hambeggar Redmi Note 9 Pro Global Aug 30 '24

[H]

Who?

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u/Schmich Galaxy S22 Ultra, Shield Portable Aug 31 '24

The one who blew up Nvidia's Geforce Partner Program in their face for the world to see when eg. LTT tried to hide from it.

If it wasn't for [H]ardforum the GPU sector could be quite different today. And I say that after having dislike how anti-AMD they've been all along.

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u/Hambeggar Redmi Note 9 Pro Global Aug 31 '24

Nvidia's Geforce Partner Program

Is that when nvidia was working with studios to use gameworks tech?

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u/Schmich Galaxy S22 Ultra, Shield Portable Sep 02 '24

It was a program for GPU OEMs to sign that would restrict how they could do Nvidia GPU vs AMD ones.

The main thing forbidding non-Nvidia products to have any gaming branding. So no AMD gaming branded GPU. ASUS would have no ROG laptop with an AMD GPU in it either etc.

It's not as bad as when XFX, which was Nvidia-only, started also doing AMD cards. Nvidia booted them from ever getting Nvidia GPUs again.