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AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync

posted by janrinok on Wednesday April 18 2018, @10:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the squabbles dept.

takyon writes:

AMD calls out NVIDIA's partner program, G-Sync 'gamer taxes':

A promotional push by NVIDIA has apparently tied up PC builders, and raised the ire of its competitor AMD. The current leader in the graphics card market, NVIDIA has apparently developed a GeForce Partner Program (GPP) that it claims exists to "ensure that gamers have full transparency into the GPU platform and software they're being sold, and can confidently select products that carry the NVIDIA GeForce promise."

But according to AMD, that vague explanation hides an attempt to elbow competition out of high-profile system lines. A recent report by HardOCP suggests that for PC builders to be a part of the program (with access to combined marketing efforts, bundles and rebate offers) they have to exclusively align their gaming brand with NVIDIA's GeForce hardware (and not AMD's Radeon). Things came to a head yesterday when ASUS suddenly announced a new gaming line, AREZ, that apparently exists only to keep AMD Radeon-powered PCs out of its well-known ROG gaming equipment. With AMD out of the way, the ROG line can join NVIDIA's GPP.

Also at Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware, and Notebookcheck.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @01:47AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @01:47AM (#668792)

    They are just about the worst chip manufacture out there when it comes to transparency and openness.

    I guess it depends on what platform you're using. On Linux, you won't find a better combination of open community involvement, open source drivers (with documentation), and performant hardware. When you looking at all of those things, nVidia is straight up garbage comparatively... That's not even getting into nVidia's shady business practices like GPP. AMD's response is over the top and sanctimonious. However, I can't fault AMD too much considering nVidia's slimy behavior. While AMD is far from being an angel, they aren't even in the same zip code as nVidia and Intel when it comes to sleaziness.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:35AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:35AM (#668853) Journal

    I'm confused. At first, you seem to contradict the post you replied to, only to then basically say the same as that post: nVidia is the opposite of open.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @05:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @05:44PM (#669179)

      the op just didn't write/edit it properly. the second point was the valid one.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:46AM (#668856)

    Linux creator Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, the single worst company the Linux developer community has ever dealt with.
    -- https://www.wired.com/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/ [wired.com]