Read more.Nvidia is not intending to compete with AIC partner designs, says CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
Read more.Nvidia is not intending to compete with AIC partner designs, says CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
By design, does he mean where you fold up your account balance into a paper aeroplane?
AGTDenton (30-09-2016),CAT-THE-FIFTH (01-10-2016)
It's not competing with it's AIB partners, it's just taking market share from them. Completely different.....
.....words.
Pleiades (30-09-2016)
So, nVidia are telling FE owners "You paid extra for a sub-standard beta product"
I would have stuck with "Limited exclusivity for early profit returns".
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Corky34 (01-10-2016)
What a load of nonsense, Nvidia just realized it better can fleece the whales of pc gaming and is trying to invent excuses.
Does anyone actually takes this seriously: "purely to solve problems in graphics card design,"?
This reveals either 1 of 2 things:
1 - Nvidia lauches cards with problems and expects the end user that shelled 500+ pounds for it to report any issues.
or
2 - Nvidia wants to eat part of the marker by being the 1st player in the sales game, shutting their partners out until they have sold enough on the initial hype.
My gut feeling tells me that Nvidia has done both. Sending poor products to users so they can do the testing themselves, while scooping the initial burst in sales.
This is the reason why I really do not like this dodgy company. Once I started building my own computers I've never had a single Nvidia GPU. Never had any memory problem like being advertised 2 Gb and then it is 1.5 + 0.5 of really slow memory.
The more this company "speaks" the more the BS starts to surface.
3 - Nvidia actually saw problems with the way AIB's design cards and wanted to show how they consider it should be done, it just so happens they've not made public or not said what problems their card solved.
That's certainly a possibility, although it would be incredibly arrogant of NVidia, and betray a complete lack of respect for and confidence in their AIB partners. It's not like there have been any recent generations of GeForce cards where the AIB cards have been significantly worse than the reference designs.
This is the bit that gets me, though. I would assume that the technology behind reference edition cards in previous generations was also shared with Nvidia partners - otherwise how would they know how to build a card at all? Meaning the only thing the Founders Edition program brings to the table is a month of consumer testing. Why do nvidia suddenly need a month of consumer testing to work out how to build a good graphics card? Are their reference designs not good enough already?Technology behind the Founders Edition cards and findings from its first month of exclusivity are shared with Nvidia partners, noted Huang
So competing with partners by selling retail packaged cards Nvidia is not competition. Maybe it's becasue Nvidia get the cards at cost. So yeah, Nvidia have no competition because they can build cards at lower prices to anyone else and sell at founder edition RRP's.
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