By Darren Allan
AMD has taken Nvidia to task over the latter’s partner program for GeForce graphics cards, using a blog post to state that AMD is on the gamers’ side – and that it’s all for promoting freedom of choice in PC gaming – inferring that Nvidia isn’t.
In case you missed the controversy that erupted over Nvidia’s GeForce Partner Program last month, an investigate report from HardOCP levelled accusations of this scheme potentially damaging the level of choice the consumer has when it comes to graphics cards.
Mainly because those manufacturers who want to benefit from Nvidia’s scheme (and there are apparently some serious benefits – including marketing funds) would only be able to sell GeForce cards in their gaming brand, and not rival GPUs, the argument went. Read the full piece here.
So there are a couple of things to note here from the off. Firstly, Nvidia flatly denied any such strong arming, and secondly, in this new blog post, AMD makes no direct mention of Nvidia at all. But it’s pretty clear who the post is taking pot-shots at.
Written by Scott Herkelman, AMD’s Corporate VP of Radeon Gaming, the blog post states that AMD pledges to reignite freedom …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components