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Colorful set to become second-largest graphics card vendor

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Whats interesting is that this brand sells mostly in China:

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/83381-colorful-set-become-second-largest-graphics-card-vendor/

The global market for graphics cards has shown declining sales in recent years, only the Chinese market has held stable with high demand - a factor underpinning Colorful's success. Chinese graphics card shipments number 16-17 million units a year which accounts for over 50 per cent of global volume.
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It appears global graphics card sales are declining but that the Chinese market is stable and is responsible for over half the global sales!!

Its a bit scary though - if the Chinese market were to slow down,it might not be very pretty!!
 
Never heard of them before, considering its china wouldn't surprise me if they're a make we know with a different sticker. :p
 
Wouldn't be surprised if they were half the price we pay for the same gpu either. When I was in Hong Kong a few years ago I remember going to a PC hardware market and some of the stuff was so much cheaper than the UK by a huge margin I checked with my Chinese mate if they were knock offs but all of it was legit.
 
they are probably blatant copies of nvidia and amd cards just not as good. they make all kinds of cars over that that are the exact same as cars in rest of the world but the copyright laws (or whatever) dont get upheld by the chinese
 
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they are probably blatant copies of nvidia and amd cards just not as good. they make all kinds of cars over that that are the exact same as cars in rest of the world but the copyright laws (or whatever) dont get upheld by the chinese
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/facepalm

You cant just 'copy' desktop graphic chips. This company just seems like an eastern version of Gigabyte, asus and all the other board partners.

They can buy three kinds of things from AMD/Nvidia:

-the whole reference board and reference cooler, which will go in a branded box and get sold as bought from Nvidia/AMD
-The reference PCB with no cooler, this is to stick their own aftermarket cooler
-Just the chip, this is to go on a custom PCB of the brands design

It doesn't matter if it is Chinese made, plenty of great electronics is made in China AND is legit.
 
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yeh like the article says they are like palit and asus
they have pretty good coolers and just sell well *shrug*

i find the mistrust funny tho :)
 
D1craig said:
they are probably blatant copies of nvidia and amd cards just not as good. they make all kinds of cars over that that are the exact same as cars in rest of the world but the copyright laws (or whatever) dont get upheld by the chinese
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WOW

That's some brush you are using there.....

Not all Chinese stuff is knock off you know....

Also GPU's aren't that easy to just copy.

My card is from China and it's awesome.....


saying all that...... they wont be using Nvidia Tesla or AMD Firepro chips anytime soon.... Link
 
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TBH it was from watching top gear, maybe i have some ancestry with the very trusting Jezza.

arent most of the companies that make the main parts for these GPUs chinese? that could mean they sell the bits to homemade companies cheaper.

i didnt read the link i just read what was in the main post and it made it sound like it was a company the likes of nvidia and AMD not asus, evga, palit etc.
 
D1craig said:
TBH it was from watching top gear, maybe i have some ancestry with the very trusting Jezza.

arent most of the companies that make the main parts for these GPUs chinese? that could mean they sell the bits to homemade companies cheaper.

i didnt read the link i just read what was in the main post and it made it sound like it was a company the likes of nvidia and AMD not asus, evga, palit etc.
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If you ask China if the Nvidia chips are Chinese they will say yes.... Taiwan might say different :D
 
Whats more interesting is that China is the only big market where discrete card sales are NOT declining and they have over 50% of the worldwide discrete graphics cards sales.
It pretty much means if the Chinese reduce their spending on gaming in anyway it would have a knock on effect on how much we pay for our cards.
 
I've seen a few of their cards on other UK retailers, although through third party sellers from China. Wouldn't fancy dealing with an RMA though.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Whats more interesting is that China is the only big market where discrete card sales are NOT declining and they have over 50% of the worldwide discrete graphics cards sales.
It pretty much means if the Chinese reduce their spending on gaming in anyway it would have a knock on effect on how much we pay for our cards.
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That's also because until recently no gaming consoles were legally allowed to be sold there. MS, Sony and Nintendo are only now somewhat allowed to sell consoles based on the agreements and that the Chinese governments ran tests to see it wouldn't corrupt the youth ( lol ).

They were all banned since 2000, and only started selling in September 2014.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...z-rule-to-allow-game-console-sales-nationwide

As such China has always been primarily PC gaming country.
 
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