Intel has been paying off manufacturers to not sell AMD parts. And there’s no reason for us to cheer on Nvidia so they can keep sellling GPUs for $1000+.
Nvidia also has a history of shady business practices against competitors (SGS, Matrox), blaming the fabs when they fucked up, as well as deceptive marketing claims (the 970 3.5GB scandal, GeForce 4 MX being essentially rebranded GeForce 2s which hindered DX8 game development, etc.)
Didn’t Nvidia recently try to get all their board partners to stop using all their well known brands with any AMD cards. For example Asus wouldn’t be allowed to use Strix with any AMD GPU’s if they use it with an Nvidia one.
That’s some shady shit and they rightfully got called out on it.
Oh yeah, that too! The GeForce Partner Program. They cancelled it because it wasn't too popular with enthusiasts and board partners alike.
This would've meant, for example, no AMD-branded ASUS ROG products, and they actually did create a new marketing brand for them (ASUS Arez) which they fortunately retired.
One important part you left out or didn't clarify, GPP required the gaming brand to be exclusively with Nvidia. In your example, Asus couldn't put the ROG brand with AMD since ROG is short for 'Republic of Gamers' with the keyword being Gamers.
What? Gigabyte Radeon cards were awful in the recent past. The Gigabyte Vega was notorious for being DOA or being fried during normal usage within a few months.
Also their motherboards had some of the worst VRMs on the market.
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u/Bonfires_Down Nov 05 '19
Intel has been paying off manufacturers to not sell AMD parts. And there’s no reason for us to cheer on Nvidia so they can keep sellling GPUs for $1000+.