nVidia playing tough

[RobM]

If this is true its really bad for the consumer.
nVidia locking its OEM partners into nVidia only for "Gaming" branded GPUs.
Effectively removing AMD from the brands such as ROG.

I thought such anti-competitive practices were illegal.

Source: makes an interesting read
https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/03/08/geforce_partner_program_impacts_consumer_choice

 

[tinytomlogan]

In short. Its Bull.


All they are asking Vendors to do is have unique branding for Nvidia GPU's. They have NOT told people they cant sell AMD and Nvidia - just saying they should have their own unique branding so consumers dont get confused.

Makes perfect sense to me.

 

[RobM]

I really hope your right Tom

 

[tinytomlogan]

I really hope your right Tom

I am right.

 

[AlienALX]

I will agree with Tom. Mostly because if they did actually attempt that they would get sued to F. Plus with Vega being so popular with miners I would personally see it in my best interests as a business to keep selling AMD GPUs..

I thought this had been misconstrued tbh.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Tom might be right, but I don't trust Nvidia as far as I can throw them. They have a history of anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices. When it comes to Nvidia it's best to assume the worst and overreact before they get to exploit whatever crappy idea they came up with.

 

[Eddie long]

In short. Its Bull.


All they are asking Vendors to do is have unique branding for Nvidia GPU's. They have NOT told people they cant sell AMD and Nvidia - just saying they should have their own unique branding so consumers dont get confused.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Yes that's sound nearer the truth

 

[WYP]

Makes me think about ASUS' branding in the monitor market, where the term Swift is used for Nvidia G-Sync Displays, and Strix is used for their high-end FreeSync/Adaptive Sync displays. Different branding helps to avoid confusion.

 

[AlienALX]

Makes me think about ASUS' branding in the monitor market, where the term Swift is used for Nvidia G-Sync Displays, and Strix is used for their high-end FreeSync/Adaptive Sync displays. Different branding helps to avoid confusion.

I would not be sad if Asus decided not to release any more AMD cards. They are simply too expensive and in most cases crap (the Fury Strix looked great but cooling was mediocre). Sapphire beat them very well on Fury, and then again on Polaris.

 

[Dawelio]

Makes me think about ASUS' branding in the monitor market, where the term Swift is used for Nvidia G-Sync Displays, and Strix is used for their high-end FreeSync/Adaptive Sync displays. Different branding helps to avoid confusion.

Yet, they use the "Strix" branding on both their Nvidia and AMD GPUs lol :lol: ^_^

 

[Tolemac]

I would not be sad if Asus decided not to release any more AMD cards. They are simply too expensive and in most cases crap (the Fury Strix looked great but cooling was mediocre). Sapphire beat them very well on Fury, and then again on Polaris.

Aye Sapphire is the way to go for an AMD card my 290X Vapor x was a very good card and I loved it but I hated my Asus HD7970 Matrix Platinum

 

[AlienALX]

Aye Sapphire is the way to go for an AMD card my 290X Vapor x was a very good card and I loved it but I hated my Asus HD7970 Matrix Platinum

One of those Platinum cards (I can't remember which) had terrible issues with dying. It might have been the 290x...

 

[Dawelio]

One of those Platinum cards (I can't remember which) had terrible issues with dying. It might have been the 290x...

So it died over and over again? :huh:...

 

[Kaapstad]

Aye Sapphire is the way to go for an AMD card my 290X Vapor x was a very good card and I loved it but I hated my Asus HD7970 Matrix Platinum

Yep the HD 7970 Matrix Platinum was the worst 7970 on the market.

Clock for clock it actually performed worse than the reference one unlike all the other AIB cards which were the same as the reference one. I had three of the Matrix Platinums and they all did this.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I would not be sad if Asus decided not to release any more AMD cards. They are simply too expensive and in most cases crap (the Fury Strix looked great but cooling was mediocre). Sapphire beat them very well on Fury, and then again on Polaris.

Emmm... my Fury Strix was cooler than some GTX 980's...

 

[AlienALX]

Emmm... my Fury Strix was cooler than some GTX 980's...

It wasn't Strix Fury that was bad. It was the 290x Platinum. Huge amount of failures on OCUK, which is probably why they were selling them off very cheap after the 390 series came out.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

It wasn't Strix Fury that was bad. It was the 290x Platinum. Huge amount of failures on OCUK, which is probably why they were selling them off very cheap after the 390 series came out.

You said the cooling was mediocre on the Fury Strix. It wasn't, not for me. I did hear a few people on OCN that had contact issues with the very early models, but it was largely the same cooler for the 980Ti as for the Fury and many of the issues were resolved.

 

[AlienALX]

You said the cooling was mediocre on the Fury Strix. It wasn't, not for me. I did hear a few people on OCN that had contact issues with the very early models, but it was largely the same cooler for the 980Ti as for the Fury and many of the issues were resolved.

I had my cards mixed up fella. I knew one of them was a stinker, turns out there were actually two (7970 mat plat and 290x mat plat).

I just remember this thread on OCUK about all of the people who had 290x mat plat fail. Like, totally die on them. Not just one or two, but a big handful.. Big enough to make you wonder you know?

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I had my cards mixed up fella. I knew one of them was a stinker, turns out there were actually two (7970 mat plat and 290x mat plat).

I just remember this thread on OCUK about all of the people who had 290x mat plat fail. Like, totally die on them. Not just one or two, but a big handful.. Big enough to make you wonder you know?

Oh, I see, sorry.

I agree that the Strix cards are too expensive, but I also think they sometimes get a bad wrap. MSI's 980Ti Gaming 6G was not up to snuff I remember. They insisted on a dual-slot, dual-fan design and it just wasn't competitive against the G1 Gaming and Zotac stuff. I'm glad to see EVGA move to 3-fan designs as well, but they're so expensive. The Aorus stuff I really like, but the quality of the shroud is pretty bad. They are cool, quiet and look awesome, but they're overpriced for the quality of the external shroud.

 

[RobM]

Going through this partnership program again and still see as dodgy
Here is how I keep reading this (lets use ASUS as an example)
Asus branding (assuming ASUS main gaming brand is ROG):

ROG Strix nVidia only
Turbo nVidia/AMD
Dual nVidia/AMD
Expedition nVidia/AMD
Phoenix nVidia/AMD

The program is exclusivity in the "Gaming" brand.
I have read the info several times and it still reads (for me at least) the same way.