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Pulling the Plug on GPP, Leaning into GeForce
May 4, 2018 by JOHN TEEPLE
A lot has been said recently about our GeForce Partner Program. The rumors, conjecture and mistruths go far beyond its intent. Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program.
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Looks like the pressure exerted by AMD, Intel, and it's affiliates broke the camels back!

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/05/04/gpp/
 
Yeah, I have to say it's good that nVidia backed down form that.

After Asus made the change to the boxes it was too damn obvious what the end goal was. I'm pretty damn sure nVidia can obtain the same result in another way; another les blatantly evil way.

Now they just need to get rid of the stupid login of the GeForce Experience client and I'll consider nVidia again.

Cheers!
 


Yeah, a proper cooling solution needs to be developed, but 3D looks like the future.
 
FTC makes clear 'warranty void if removed' stickers are illegal. ... Under the 1975 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/ftc-warranty-warning/

Just in case anyone did not know a lot of the times these types of warranties are put on video card screws to void warranty. FTC is making sure everyone knows it's illegal to use warranty voiding stickers!
 


Good news that I really like....
 
I watched the entire GTC Keynote from NVidia. No mention of Turing or Ampere at all. I was prepared to be underwhelmed by a lot of marketing speak. Instead, I was impressed. NVidia has positioned themselves to dominate the future of computing. The Volta GPU is even more of a monster than it appeared to be when it was first announced. No one else has anything close.
 


That's my thinking too. I also think that GV104 will be just like a GTX 1080 ti with tensor cores. I also don't believe real time ray tracing is going to be worth it at first. It may be worth it later but not at first. I don't believe the hardware is going to be there yet to make games look significantly better than what we have now. I looked at the Metro Exodus tech demo and it didn't impress me.
 


ray tracing does not suddenly make our game to be more photorealistic just like many raytracing image that we saw in professional presentation. the point of using ray tracing is to get rid of "baked effect" that become the standard in rendering our games ever due to performance reason. with nvidia RTX real time calculation of lightning effect can be done with GPU to certain degree. think of it like what it did with tessellation engine.
 


Interesting! Are they going to try and pull an Intel, 3 generation lead and sit on designs? Or is it something else?
 


more like they can't let people know they were about to launch something new soon and directly affecting current 10 series sales. but the cat is out of the bag anyway. when nvidia was about to launch 10 series to the market they got sharp decline in market share (down 7%). i still remember back then there was a lot of sales on 980ti (can be had as low as $400 at one point for a brand new unit) about one or two months before nvidia officially announced 1080/1070.
 
Some people think it's a temporary announcement, so everyone will not wait to buy GPUs expecting something new to come out. I guess they want to knock down some of their inventory.
 
mining demand probably made things a bit complicated. nvidia usually EOL their GPU production when they were about to launch new generation of GPU. but the demand from mining is quite unexpected just when new generation should launch. i think nvidia finally decided to order more but then the mining demand starts slowing down. giving official price cut is something nvidia try to avoid.
 
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