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.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday April 19 2018, @06:34PM (2 children)
What is a native chipset?
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday April 19 2018, @06:55PM
In this context, I would say it refers to integrated-and-underpowered graphics circuitry, as opposed to an optional-extra discrete gpu with some horsepower to it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by archfeld on Thursday April 19 2018, @07:15PM
I was meaning the onboard graphics chipset, in my case it is an intel something or other. Grossly underpowered but functional. As I said it has been a long time since I played any sort of modern game. I do miss the days of hours of gaming fun, I started playing muds, I was online in the world of Norath before they added a graphical front end to it and called it EverQuest. I played Dark ages of Camelot, EQ2, WoW, Heretic 2 was a favorite of mine, and I played the original Unreal Tournament on a very good team sponsored by Digital Extremes. I remember the days of LAN parties, and the Bay Area Network Gaming Group. The last real online/fps game I played was Battlefield2, though I dabbled in the Star wars online games, and Rift as well.
The last performance machine I had was an H2O cooled AMD Opteron with a Radeon 9700 graphics card and that was a long time ago. It is hell getting old and other things had to come first.
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