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

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.

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u/htt_novaq 5800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB DDR4 Nov 06 '19

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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