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A lot of fluff but doesn't really saying anything other than "We can't compete in these performance niches so we'll spout platitudes instead ." Since the subject came up, all I can remember is the commercial for Burger King with the old granny muttering "Where's the beef ?". When nVidia came out w/ PhysX, AMD could have a) produced a competing technology or b) licensed it. When nVidia came out w/ G-Sync, they could have a) produced a competing technology or b) licensed it ...instead they chose c) Create a name similar to G-Sync, only provide a part of the technology and sell the lesser featured package at reduced price. AMD could have included a hardware module in the Freesync monitors, but they chose not to ... some Freesync monitor manufacturers did include such a MBR module but they were not well recived because when the Freesync monitors were able to offer motion blur reduction buy adding the necessary hardware, they no longer had that big price advantage... and AMD never jumped on the MBR bandwagon cause they chose instead to sell on price.
nVidia has been taking more and more control from it's board partners legally, driver wise and physically with successive generations. Now it is willing to give 3rd party vendors a boost by partnering with them to create high performance model lines that customers are willing to pay for. We will write our drivers so as to allow higher clocks, if during the install it detects PCBs that meet certain criteria with regard to voltage control, cooling, etc.
And if they do so, all they are saying that if you are using what we give you to increase mindshare and generate high margins, you can't allow our competitor to take advantage of the branding ***we*** helped you build. This is business as usual in America ... newsflash .... America is a capitalist dog eat dog country... deal with it. If you own a pizza joint, Coca Cola will give you a refrigerator to hold its products... you want to put Pepsi in there, you violate the licensing agreement and we take back OUR fridge.
Where's the beef ? If Asus calls the nVidia line Strix and their Radeon line Arez, so what ? If AMD says that Asus can't not sell an AMD based card called Arez, would there be such a steenk ? Buger King can sell a 1/4 pound burger but thye can not call it "the quarter pounder" There is nothing anti-competitive; nothing more sinister limiting the use of the name then there is about not putting our competitor's products in the free fridge we gave you. In the end, all AMD is saying ... "well we gonna offer free fridges too"... and now when we buy pizza, we'll see two fridges ...one with AMD stuff inside and one with nVidia ... great EXACTLY what I wanted ... a way to read the logo on top of the fridge telling me this is where I can find an nVidia product inside and here's where I can find and AMD product inside. Nothing anti competitive, more like truth in advertising. The nVidia Strix products of recent generations are overclocking by 14 - 31%. The AMD cards are in single digits for the most part. The only thing AMD loses by the name limiting partnership agreement is that no one will be purchasing a product thinking that because their nVidia Strix OC's 25%, their AMD Strix is capable of doing the same.
I hope Intel soon does the same as I am frustrated by confused users sending me proposed 8700k builds with X370 MoBos cause they think X370 is a cheaper version of the Z370.
First off, let's state the facts. Nvidia didn't come out with PhysX, it bought Ageia which is the company that made PhysX. Ageia's tech worked fine on AMD hardware before Nvidia bought them and then suddenly it didn't. Second, FreeSync have been reviewed by Tom's hardware and many other reputable tech reviewers and is identical to G-Sync. I don't know where you getting this "only provide a part of the technology and sell the lesser featured package at reduced price" but it's complete bullshit.
"Now it is willing to give 3rd party vendors a boost by partnering with them to create high performance model lines that customers are willing to pay for."
Nvidia was already doing this /facepalm
The only thing the GPP does it threaten to take away things these companies were already getting. Pass-through rebates, chip allocation, and marketing funds (all things stated in the GPP contract) were all being given out by Nvidia prior to the GPP.
FYI Nvidia didn't partner with ASUS to create the STRIX or ROG branding, ASUS made that themselves long ago.
"And if they do so, all they are saying that if you are using what we give you to increase mindshare and generate high margins, you can't allow our competitor to take advantage of the branding ***we*** helped you build."
Yeah like anyone was going to confuse an ASUS GEFORCE GTX 1080 STRIX with an ASUS RADEON RX Vega STRIX. How exactly is AMD benefiting from Nvidia's marketing here? You are telling me that the person is going to somehow ignore the "RADEON" or "GEFORCE" AND somehow ignore the model as well? Right, good luck with that one buddy.
Your comment is nothing more than conjecture, lies, and misinformation. Stop making excuses for Nvidia, that's all your doing here.
This ^^^.
Plus it always seems to be easier to rush in and defend the "little guy" or the "brave revolution RTG" against big bad green nVidia.
Quoting AdoredTV's latest video, around 18:00. AMD's fan base is some of the most toxic fan base in hardware forum.
If that's all you gleamed from that video, you obviously didn't watch it. You are part of the problem he pointed out.
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