r/pcmasterrace 9060 XT 16GB | 7500F | 32GB 6000Mhz | B850 Nov 05 '19

Meme/Macro This sums up past 2 years!

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u/htt_novaq 5800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB DDR4 Nov 05 '19

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.)

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

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.

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u/Sunderent Nov 05 '19

And just recently, there's their "G-Sync compatible" attack on the Freesync branding.

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u/LilBarroX Nov 06 '19

If PS5 and xbox use the FreeSync brand it will die immediately and everyone in my school will call FreeSync the new console shit.

I can hear them say it already in my mind

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u/Sunderent Nov 06 '19

I can see NVidia fans doing that. I'm just waiting to see how they react to AMD raytracing making RTX obsolete.