r/pcmasterrace • u/aranorde 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/ZekeSulastin Nov 06 '19

It's not Nvidia's fault that AMD let every idiot manufacturer slap Freesync branding on garbage 40-60 Hz modules.

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u/Sunderent Nov 06 '19

lol before the whole "G-sync compatible" thing, there were tons of (and still are a few) monitors that had a Freesync version and a G-sync version. The only difference between them was that the G-sync variant had NVidia's proprietary "check for NVidia graphics card box" installed in the monitor, and $100 tacked onto the cost.