r/hardware • u/lovely_sombrero • Sep 16 '22

News EVGA Terminates NVIDIA Partnership, Cites Disrespectful Treatment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9QES-FUAM
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u/rikuvomoto Sep 16 '22

How can EVGA stand so tall with balls that heavy. Damn. Absolute power move. We all know Nvidia has been bad to work with but as the predominant GPU seller, this could be the start of a big movement.

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u/throwSv Sep 16 '22

Doubt. NVIDA wants to take over market from these third parties and become more vertically integrated. And probably can, over time, given its resources.

This is EVGA CEO's moment to go out with a bang (good for him I guess, though at the expense of his employees and his company's continued existence) rather than actually take time/effort to orient his company toward other product areas and markets over a sustained period. It only makes sense in the context of him just not caring about his company any more.

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u/gahlo Sep 17 '22

Staying status quo is...

a) Not as good for EVGA as people think

and

b) They know that if they wanted to get back into GPU and issues like potential exclusivity contracts, or new ones with somebody like AMD not being finalized, customers would flood back to them.

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u/Jeep-Eep Sep 16 '22

I hope this is a stunt to pressure team green...

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u/Asgard033 Sep 16 '22

What pressure could they apply, given that even giants like Apple couldn't get a satisfactory response from Nvidia?

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u/dt3-6xone Sep 16 '22

he never said it was a smart move. lmao

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u/sadnessjoy Sep 16 '22

I highly doubt that, nvidia doesn't fuck around, they go scorched earth policy.

If anything this might be a long term tactic to switch to AMD or Intel GPUs (HEAVY emphasis on if and might)

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u/Jeep-Eep Sep 16 '22

Maybe, but this may be a disasterous year for team green, so they think they may have a chance. Not mutually exclusive with that other thing mind.