[H]ardOCP: GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice

LoadsaMoney · 8 Mar 2018 at 18:45

While we usually like to focus on all the wonderful and immersive worlds that video cards and their GPUs can open up to us, today we are tackling something a bit different. The GeForce Partner Program, known as GPP in the industry, is a "marketing" program that looks to HardOCP as being an anticompetitive tactic against AMD and Intel.

https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/03/08/geforce_partner_program_impacts_consumer_choice

Kirby Wurm · 8 Mar 2018 at 20:38

Very interesting, from a site that has seemed somewhat pro-Nvidia.

Klo · 8 Mar 2018 at 20:57

If true, very anti-competitive and surely illegal?

Randomface74 · 8 Mar 2018 at 21:02

Sounds dodgy to me.

Satchfanuk · 8 Mar 2018 at 22:08

NVidia does something dodgy and people are surprised? Why do they even need to do this, they dominate the market as it is and should be happy to watch AMD struggle to compete.

This story will evolve very quickly as more sites pick up on it and the regulators take an interest in what it means for consumers.

Boomstick777 · 8 Mar 2018 at 22:18

Nvidia being Nvidia, although this seems to be reaching a new low for them. Good job really makes we want a DGPU even less

My lil AMD APU looks better and better by the day, cheap and I get the moral high ground xD

How long before the Nvidia defense squad assemble, autobots assemble !!

lowdog · 8 Mar 2018 at 22:20

HA!.....for years now I have refused to buy NVidia because of all their anticompetitive craaaaaap....pack of mongrel b@stards is that company! :mad:

shankly1985 · 8 Mar 2018 at 22:31

Why AM I not surprised! Horrible Company! O Boi !!! How can people defend these practices?

kitfit1 · 8 Mar 2018 at 22:37

shankly1985 said:
Why AM I not surprised! Horrible Company! O Boi !!! How can people defend these practices?

Totally agree and it is completely undefendable. But they do make the best GPU's, which is why i have one.
If another company made a better one, i would have that instead.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 8 Mar 2018 at 22:42

Le sigh! The worst thing is they don't even need to do this either,unless Nvidia knows something we don't??

andybird123 · 8 Mar 2018 at 22:43

shankly1985 said:
Why AM I not surprised! Horrible Company! O Boi !!! How can people defend these practices?

Who is defending it?

shankly1985 · 8 Mar 2018 at 22:57

andybird123 said:
Who is defending it?

I mean in general! Nvidia Business Practices. EVERYTHING! lol

tommybhoy · 9 Mar 2018 at 01:16

Kyle's probably got the biggest balls of steel in the industry, he just doesn't give a ****. :eek:

Boomstick777 said:
How long before the Nvidia defense squad assemble, autobots assemble !!

NDS faces giving it

Razor Time · 9 Mar 2018 at 01:50

Very underhand but not surprising.

theforce · 9 Mar 2018 at 02:14

Hope he doesn't have a mysterious accident...

Gripen90 · 9 Mar 2018 at 07:52

No surprise. None in this industry has a closet clear of old skeletons. There are no angels in this type of business. You can choose between the plauge and cholera, and it's up to one self which one is the lesser evil.

sideways14a · 9 Mar 2018 at 08:32

Dear god, what were Nvidia management smoking then they came up with this? Surely they would know the backlash they would recieve, even thought the intel/amd shenanigans are years old now its still in folks minds and a return to those kind of activities will result in a loss of image for the company.
Its also a gamble because neither AMD nor intel are likely to be too impressed with this and fight back - and Nvidia does not need to see more Radion products go into Intel spaces further reducing there overall market share.

Assuming this is legit, which it may not be all that. I bet there will be a new vid from everyones fav youtube flamer on this coming soon.

ubersonic · 9 Mar 2018 at 08:36

So if I'm reading it right, if you want to be a part of the GPP you are not allowed to make cards with AMD/Intel GPUs you have to be Nvidia exclusive, and if you're not part of the GPP your ability to produce/sell Nvidia based cards will be hamstrung?

That's super sketchy, but on a positive side maybe it will backfire on them and result in some companies that produced both Nvidia/AMD based cards having enough and ceasing Nvidia production like XFX did...

Silent_Scone · 9 Mar 2018 at 08:43

You know full well it was AMD that leaked the spectre information before the embargo lifted as well, that doesn't take a genius to workout. If only they'd just focus on what they're doing and not their competitors, we wouldn't be stuck with subpar GPUs.

sideways14a · 9 Mar 2018 at 08:45

Silent_Scone said:
You know full well it was AMD that leaked the spectre information before the embargo lifted as well, that doesn't take a genius to workout.

If i was AMD i would have as well