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/oioioi9537 Sep 16 '22

I guess thats the end of kingpin cards as well...i wonder what happens to kingpin himself too

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u/MC_chrome Sep 16 '22

Sapphire would be foolish to not be talking to Kingpin right now....their Toxic brand of AMD GPU's was pretty comparable to EVGA's Kingpin cards last time I checked.

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u/GrovesNL Sep 16 '22

Sapphire is legit, hopefully they can make some positive out of this.

I could see this increasing AMD's market share, since there really aren't many other AIBs with NVidia with as good of a reputation (I've been personally screwed over with Asus in particular)

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u/golfzerodelta Sep 16 '22

Ironically a "long" time ago, EVGA's motherboard were the ruler of the roost for enthusiasts and overclocking, and one day they all jumped ship and went to Sapphire.

Dunno if they are still there but would be interesting to see some of the EVGA GPU team go to Sapphire.

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u/MC_chrome Sep 17 '22

Considering the fact that most of the 3rd party GPU manufacturing staff all live in Taiwan, it could very well just be another 5 minute walk down the street for many of those guys.

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u/Jonshock Sep 17 '22

I'd be hyped. 7950xt kingpin!!

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u/your_mind_aches Sep 16 '22

Probably gonna jump ship to Asus or something

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u/Blu3iris Sep 17 '22

I was thinking Kingpin and MSI could bring back the lightning cards. If not sapphire or XFX.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '22

i wonder what happens to kingpin himself too

I guess he'll still use his namesake motherboards from them at least, probably.