They may still have stock with old packaging. The product sold needs to match the description.
That was not the point. Read the posting from my quote. Newegg did nothing. Those cards were always available or visible on their site.
Which websites? I checked the Canadian and US Gigabyte websites, and they still have a bunch of the Aorus and Gaming branded RX580 & Vega cards listed.Gigabyte and MSI have on most of their websites removed AMD GPU's from their gaming brands. few websites might still have the old cards, until they get updated.
Which websites? I checked the Canadian and US Gigabyte websites, and they still have a bunch of the Aorus and Gaming branded RX580 & Vega cards listed.
Of course they do. Do you really think they'd have to recall all the cards already in distribution channels?Which websites? I checked the Canadian and US Gigabyte websites, and they still have a bunch of the Aorus and Gaming branded RX580 & Vega cards listed.
Sadly 99+% of the customers don't know know and/or care about Nvidias market practices so the effect will be next to not existent.I will do my part and avoid MSI, Gigabyte and ASUS when buying AMD gpus and motherboards.
In these case I will have to compromise on asrock (same owner of ASUS but on diferent brading).Sadly 99+% of the customers don't know know and/or care about Nvidias market practices so the effect will be next to not existent.
We have more than decent options for AMD craphics cards like Sapphire, XFX and Powercolor. But as for motherboards if you exclude Asus (Asrock), MSI and Gigabyte then basically the only one left on the table is Biostar which doesn't have excellent reputation at the moment.
(/Asrock)
Of course they do. Do you really think they'd have to recall all the cards already in distribution channels?
What I'm interesting in is a simple list of the partners who signed up to such a transparent transparent program. It's surprisingly hard to find. Not like I think my meagre purchasing decisions would make a difference, but from a personal moral point of view I'd like to know which brands to support and recommend in the future.
So far it seems these guys have signed up:
- ASUS (/Asrock)
- Gigabyte
- MSI
Hardware manufacturers removing game branding from AMD products?
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ha...removing-game-branding-from-amd-products.html
Hilbert states current evidence is thin. Mentions lack of definitive evidence GPP is in effect. Article posted 3/20/18.
Asrock broke away from Asus 10 years ago or so IIRC. In fact, Asrock is bringing out video cards themselves, based on AMD GPU's shortly.
ASUS bought back Asrock a few years ago.
Pegatron owns both (last I looked).ASUS bought back Asrock a few years ago.
Really the only solution to this is for AMD to compete better, which means better cards, better availability, better marketing. Internet rage won't change anything - 99.9% of people will buy the best card for them, not from what is ethically the nicest company. As a nerd I personally haven't bought a single apple product since they sued for square rectangles, and it doesn't seem to have hurt apple much.
In this case Nvidia is able to turn the screw so hard because AMD have no top tier cards - they simply don't compete and capitalism says you beat them when they are down not help them up. AMD is seen as a budget company and Nvidia is forcing AIB's to reinforce this by not allowing them to use the same branding on Nvidia and AMD cards.
The sad thing is AMD doesn't compete not because the world is horrible to them but mostly because they have been so badly run. That's where I have the biggest issue with supporting AMD - they are not a hard luck story, they had it and they lost it themselves - it's no one's fault but AMD's that their management/marketing/etc is terrible. Is it really my job as the consumer to not get my ideal gpu just to reward that failure?
An even simpler solution is for Intel/AMD to start charging nVidia licensing fees for "certification" in order to use their chipsets, disabling PCIe in any case where nVidia fails to pay up.I think filed complaints to the FTC in the US and the competition board in the EU will solve this too.
An even simpler solution is for Intel/AMD to start charging nVidia licensing fees for "certification" in order to use their chipsets, disabling PCIe in any case where nVidia fails to pay up.
This would threaten to shut down nVidia's core business overnight. Watch how quickly they'd run away with their tail between their legs.
It's simply outrageous that nVidia rakes in $millions by taking advantage of Intel/AMD chipset IP for absolutely free, then they run around and put the squeeze on them.
An even simpler solution is for Intel/AMD to start charging nVidia licensing fees for "certification" in order to use their chipsets, disabling PCIe in any case where nVidia fails to pay up.
This would threaten to shut down nVidia's core business overnight. Watch how quickly they'd run away with their tail between their legs.
It's simply outrageous that nVidia rakes in $millions by taking advantage of Intel/AMD chipset IP for absolutely free, then they run around and put the squeeze on them.