Originally posted by: JPB
Grabs a piece of the HD 4800 pie
Gainward goes ATI
The green loving Gainward has ditched the Nvidia exclusivity and has prepped its HD 4800 series graphics cards. The reason is probably as simple as it can be; DAAMIT has great products with its HD 4800 series and Gainward simply wants to be a part of it.
Gainward is going to announce reference designed HD 4850 and HD 4870 cards. We have seen this happen when Nvidia launched its 8-series cards, and this time it's the other way around. Let's just hope, for Nvidia's sake, that Gainward is the only "Nvidia exclusive" partner that will announce the HD 4800 series.
Gainward's mothership a big graphic company that starts with a P has been doing ATI for a while and since Gainward is now run by ex ATI chap from Taiwan, it kind of make sense that this will happen.
So Gainward finally went DAAMIT leaving only few to be Nvidia only.