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

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: 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.