Monday, December 15th 2008
XFX to Play Balancing Act Between NVIDIA Partnership and ATI Products
A longstanding partner of NVIDIA, XFX would soon embrace AMD to release graphics cards based on the ATI Radeon series. Its plans however are somewhat similar to what Gainward seems to be executing: to maintain strong ties with NVIDIA, while dedicating a smaller portion of its product lineup to those incorporating ATI Radeon GPUs.
Expreview spoke with an XFX official, who confirmed that the company would be taking up projects based around ATI Radeon products, while continuing to maintain its partnership with NVIDIA by continuing to have flagship products using the NVIDIA GeForce. XFX would be going as far as making sure that its products based on ATI Radeon GPUs wouldn't release in the Chinese market (a key market for NVIDIA products). The decision by XFX to work on ATI Radeon products came as a surprise to many, since XFX has been a staunch NVIDIA tier-1 partner.
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Expreview
Expreview spoke with an XFX official, who confirmed that the company would be taking up projects based around ATI Radeon products, while continuing to maintain its partnership with NVIDIA by continuing to have flagship products using the NVIDIA GeForce. XFX would be going as far as making sure that its products based on ATI Radeon GPUs wouldn't release in the Chinese market (a key market for NVIDIA products). The decision by XFX to work on ATI Radeon products came as a surprise to many, since XFX has been a staunch NVIDIA tier-1 partner.
17 Comments on XFX to Play Balancing Act Between NVIDIA Partnership and ATI Products
unless your not in North America that is
sapphire do their job well but I want to see better options released THROUGHOUT product lines..
for example the four DVI ports on the 4850X2..not the 4870X2.. :confused:
XFX NA and XFX EU are more like 2 different companies though.
Its kind of like how Scion and Lexus are both owned by the same company(Toyota) but both are ,different(well except their names are different)
ahh forget it
Never before have I had such problems with an RMA on anything. Took one month to get an RMA number out of them, then annother month to get a peep out of them about what they were doing with it. Finally ANNOTHER month later I got the new card back and yup you guesed it, they sent me annother BROKEN one! I am now lauching a new RMA for the new card. :( :cry: :shadedshu :banghead:
Jen-Hsun Huang is Taiwanese, so maybe that has something to do with it.