Wednesday, June 12th 2013
Club3D To Focus Exclusively on AMD Products
Club3D announces today to fully commit to the sale of AMD graphics boards and related products. Judith Ma Tseng - Club3D CEO - "we are showing our commitment to AMD because we believe that AMD is ideally positioned to deliver a complete solution to our customers, and after 16 years in the business offering solutions from a variety of processor partners, we truly believe that we can offer a better solution going forward with AMD alone."
"With products like the Radeon HD 7990 Dual GPU, Club3D has a long-standing reputation for delighting enthusiasts with spectacular products based on AMD Radeon graphics chips," said Zvika Greenstein, Director of Desktop Product Management, AMD Graphics. "Their decision to join AMD as an exclusive hardware partner is a powerful acknowledgment of our leadership in the graphics space, and a tremendous contribution to the technical expertise in the AMD Radeon graphics ecosystem."
"With products like the Radeon HD 7990 Dual GPU, Club3D has a long-standing reputation for delighting enthusiasts with spectacular products based on AMD Radeon graphics chips," said Zvika Greenstein, Director of Desktop Product Management, AMD Graphics. "Their decision to join AMD as an exclusive hardware partner is a powerful acknowledgment of our leadership in the graphics space, and a tremendous contribution to the technical expertise in the AMD Radeon graphics ecosystem."
32 Comments on Club3D To Focus Exclusively on AMD Products
1. Nvidia is known for favoring their first-tier AIBs in respect to allocation, especially in respect to higher-margin high-end parts. Sometimes the smaller AIBs get literally nothing.
2. Nvidia is known for locking down spec pretty hard (greenlight) which sucks for differentiation. AMD has seemingly done some of this as well recently (like 7970 post 7970ghz), but it's not nearly as bad and for obvious reasons. Also, bios' are a thing for those products.
3. There has always been murmurs that margins are pretty slim in respect to AIBs vs. MSRP. This is reflected in nvidia's earnings versus the drop-off of nvidia AIBs.
AMD seems to have taken the route of game bundles to prop up MSRP, but it does not seem to be deeply reflected in margins for AIBs. This is why in past generations something like the 7870 would certainly be a $200 part by now, it has held pretty tight above that. That said, lower prices are available for differentiation. Clocks are also usually set with a decent lee-way for clocks (including memory), with often no meaningful hard-walled voltage spec and/or pci-e power wall. All of these are good things for AIBs and the consumer.
Dont get me wrong, I still believe the 7950 is best price/perf right now.
On paper AMD's stuff is crazy competitive against Nvidia everywhere, dig in further you will find that there are products on Nvidia's lineup which competes pretty well against AMD's offerings.
You'd think a company would want to stick to the GPU that sells to make them the most profit.
The margins must suck on Nvidia
The margins are so good on AMD it outweights the volume from needing to sell x number of Nvidia.
Don't know where you are, but in my country :rolleyes: 580s were still selling for $600++ up to 2 - 3 months AFTER 79x0 launch! GTX 6x0 was $125 - $225 more on average, compared to ATi/AMD which was in stores locally for $500 - $550. Once 6x0 hit shelves in decent numbers 79x0 dropped $$$ accordingly. GTX6X0 is pricier then even some 7x0!!! :laugh: Nvidia pricing has been, and always will be, a joke. MSRP usually means squat to Nvidia & their partners. TruStory.
ROTFLMFAO re the 10 point score from W1zz. His reviews are primo, but the scoring system is a foking joke. Apologies W1zz, my brotha from anutha motha :o :respect: :respect: :respect:
The average consumer who knows little about the difference between nVidia and AMD tend to be drawn towards nVidia in which afterwards listen to people who know little between the two as well who come up with over exaggerated or false statements which say AMD are inferior to the point where it is taking a risk buying one which is why we pay more for nVidia.
I say as long as I can RMA I am always going to go for price vs performance regardless of nVidia or AMD.