NVIDIA's New GPP Program Reportedly Engages in Monopolistic Practices

[HTC]

To this day, the only detectable "harm" in GPP was separate gaming lines for AMD and Nvidia cards.
If AMD didn't prod Kyle at HardOCP to write that inflamatory article, I wonder if anyone noticed GPP at all.

Apparently, nVidia noticed enough that it dropped it altogether ... not worth the negative publicity, i'm guessing.

 

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Apparently, nVidia noticed enough that it dropped it altogether ... not worth the negative publicity, i'm guessing.

That doesn't even make sense. I was (rhetorically) asking what would have happened in the absence of HardOCP's article, not in the wake of it.

 

[Xzibit]

I find it interesting that rather be transparent about the program they choose not to be.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

To this day, the only detectable "harm" in GPP was separate gaming lines for AMD and Nvidia cards.

Which was NVIDIA's intent.

Apparently, nVidia noticed enough that it dropped it altogether ... not worth the negative publicity, i'm guessing.

NVIDIA already got what they wanted out of it: the most valuable graphics card brands are now exclusively NVIDIA.

That doesn't even make sense. I was (rhetorically) asking what would have happened in the absence of HardOCP's article, not in the wake of it.

NVIDIA would have got their way and no one would be the wiser except a tiny group of executives.

I find it interesting that rather be transparent about the program they choose not to be.

Because they knew it likely wasn't legal so they flew the program under the RADAR. Luckily someone caught a glimpse of it and investigated.

 

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NVIDIA already got what they wanted out of it: the most valuable graphics card brands are now exclusively NVIDIA.

Valuable to whom? Cause I certainly don't give a rat's ass what's written on the box.

 

[Xzibit]

Valuable to whom? Cause I certainly don't give a rat's ass what's written on the box.

To Nvidia.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Let's just all be thankful it is over, some like freedom of choice, others pretend to care about the freedom of choice.

We need a fair fight after all, it's great Nvidia offered the GTX 1080 back in May 2016, what we don't need is AMD offering GTX 1080 performance a year and a half later.

 

[kruk]

Valuable to whom? Cause I certainly don't give a rat's ass what's written on the box.

It's obviously valuable to hundreds of millions of other PC users. Why else would nVidia waste money on this? Come on ...

 

[sith'ari]

Let's just all be thankful it is over, some like freedom of choice, others pretend to care about the freedom of choice.

We need a fair fight after all, it's great Nvidia offered the GTX 1080 back in May 2016, what we don't need is AMD offering GTX 1080 performance a year and a half later.

Indeed, i've had great freedom of choice all these past months where the "mining-inflation" has driven GPU prices to sky-high, and for months we couldn't even buy a mid-range GPU without paying a fortune !!
But nevertheless, ..... thank God that this GPProgram was abandoned and now my i can finally feel that my consumer-rights are protected and safeguarded !! .....
So now , with the end of GPP, i can finally say that : "my consumer choices are not impacted anymore" (*or just like Kyle said: "WE won" !!! https://hardforum.com/threads/nvidia-pulling-plug-on-gpp.1959889/ )

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Actually, it is until those that bent over backwards for NVIDIA course correct. Hopefully when the FTC catches up, they'll order NVIDIA to pay damages to those companies that signed on because they felt they had no choice.

 

[sith'ari]

The point here is that this hole "GPP grand-campaign" started in order to protect from nVidia the ...."consumer choices that were being impacted by GPP" ( https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/03/07/geforce_partner_program_impacts_consumer_choice )
UNLIKE... AMD whose primary goal is to always "protect consumer choices" :

So, as i said at my previous post, now with the end of GPP, i can finally say that : "my consumer choices are not impacted anymore"

 

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It's obviously valuable to hundreds of millions of other PC users. Why else would nVidia waste money on this? Come on ...

Ah, GPP is bad because Nvidia was some brands for themselves and the brands are vaulable because Nvidia wants them.
Circular reasoning, but I'll take it if that the best you can come up with.

 

[Prince Valiant]

Let's just all be thankful it is over, some like freedom of choice, others pretend to care about the freedom of choice.

We need a fair fight after all, it's great Nvidia offered the GTX 1080 back in May 2016, what we don't need is AMD offering GTX 1080 performance a year and a half later.

Not that it matters when we're still sitting at that performance two years later.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Yeah sadly a lack of competition slows things down, hey ho.

 

[Xzibit]

Hardware Unboxed: Gamers Win! Nvidia GPP Abandoned

 

[kruk]

Ah, GPP is bad because Nvidia was some brands for themselves and the brands are vaulable because Nvidia wants them.
Circular reasoning, but I'll take it if that the best you can come up with.

Well, still better than constant regurgitating that GPP is (was) something good .

 

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Well, still better than constant regurgitating that GPP is (was) something good .

So you don't think AMD can sell as many cards if they're branded separately?

Edit: Also, if you can please show me where I (or anyone else) said GPP was good, that would be much appreciated. Because the crux of this matter is GPP wasn't public (then again, so are other commercial agreements, but let's not let that stand in the way of a good hating). To conlcude something you don't have access to is either good or bad, requires quite a bit of bias on one's side. Because logic tells us, whether that thing is good or bad, you can't actually tell.

 

[kruk]

Edit: Also, if you can please show me where I (or anyone else) said GPP was good, that would be much appreciated.

Sorry, a non native speaker mistake. With "good" I meant => fine, ok, non-problematic, harmless, etc. I think I don't need to provide quotes for that ...

Additionally, you can find the answer to your first question in my post history. I said everything that has to be said about GPP and now that it's finally dead (or at least looks that way) it's time to move on ...