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HP and Dell would have said NO to the NVIDIA GeForce Program Partner

There are already two brands that have said NO to NVIDIA's GPP, these would be HP and Dell, which are reluctant and believe that it could harm them, at some point, at a legal level.

There is much talk about the new NVIDIA partner program, also known as GPP, which has been adopted by MSI, ASUS and Gigabyte, in principle, because of the advantageous conditions and because they are tired of the unfortunate way of working of AMD. Some big manufacturers of OEM equipment (of those expensive ones that they sell in department stores, that with that money, you would buy a beast of gaming equipment), such as HP and Dell, have no intention of entering the program.

Such a program, supposedly, would incentivize brands to use their top-of-the-range gaming families, only on NVIDIA products. Many blame this as an aggressive campaign against AMD, to remove it from the market, although seeing the latest movements of AMD, saying that Vega in 7nm is not for the gaming market and that the next graphics will be Navi in ​​7nm, for the second half of 2019, it is not that NVIDIA has to do much to remove AMD from the market, they are already taking care of themselves.

The conditions of the program, supposedly, receive GPUs before other brands, engineering help for custom models, launch of custom models before other brands, discount programs for sale to the public, bundles with games promoted on social networks and marketing support .

The person in charge of HardOCP, Kyle Bennet, would have leaked several excerpts from the document on this NVIDIA program, which would highlight an anti-competitive and primarily illegal nature, which would influence the final buyer. Logically, NVIDIA has denied all these accusations, which are very daring, for two pieces of a document, which are equivalent to 9 words completely decontextualized.

HP and Dell are known to be the only brands that have passed NVIDIA GPP, as these brands fear that this program is unethical and not legal, so it adds fuel to the fire. We add to this that Intel could take legal action against NVIDIA, to protect its Kaby Lake-G processors, which carry AMD Vega GPUs.

If this lacked sauce, the boys of Wccftech They have joined the controversial voting trend and called users in a survey on their website to vote on whether or not to boycott NVIDIA. This controversy, based on dimes and diretes, begins to be quite absurd and is that NVIDIA, in the high range has no competition and if the competition of the GTX 1070 / 1070Ti / 1080 is the Vega 64 from AMD, it is not competition either, because the Vega are expensive, they consume what is not in the writings and they get very hot.

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Robert Sole

Director of Contents and Writing of this same website, technician in renewable energy generation systems and low voltage electrical technician. I work in front of a PC, in my free time I am in front of a PC and when I leave the house I am glued to the screen of my smartphone. Every morning when I wake up I walk across the Stargate to make some coffee and start watching YouTube videos. I once saw a dragon ... or was it a Dragonite?

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5 comments

  1. AMD is doing very well in processors now, but it must recover in the GPUs, before AMD dominated NVIDIA, it allowed itself to be overcome and is now only bought by miners.

  2. But I read elsewhere that they joined because it wouldn't be convenient for them due to the legal costs, not because they were going to wipe AMD out of the market (no altruism, just self-interest). Intel will certainly challenge them with a lawsuit.
    It is not because they are all outraged by NVidia's move.

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