[Rumor] EVGA Partnering With AMD On Vega & Radeon RX 500 cards

[amenx]

Source WCCF ( bitsandchips.it ) citing "private sources". So prerequisite mountain of salt to be taken.

http://wccftech.com/amd-evga-vega/

EVGA Reportedly Mulling A Jump On The AMD Vega Train

This particular rumor from bitsandchips.it, who have cited private sources, claims that the potential is very much real this year. Nvidia’s board partners are said to have raised grievances with the company as a result of its recent channel strategies which haven’t been very kind to them. Nvidia’s recent decisions to exclusively sell the highly profitable Titan X Pascal as well as price reference designed Founder’s Edition cards considerably higher than the base retail MSRP that its board-partners have to contend with have reportedly not sat well with EVGA in particular...

 

[Bacon1]

E V G A

V E G A

Would be great to have EVGA as an option again for video cards. I bought almost all of my Nvidia cards through them.

 

[Yakk]

Possible, but very unlikely EVGA does this on their own IMHO. Unless nvidia decides to self sell all their hardware and eliminate their AIB partner structure entirely. THAT I could see happening however.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Possible, but very unlikely EVGA does this on their own IMHO. Unless nvidia decides to self sell all their hardware and eliminate their AIB partner structure entirely. THAT I could see happening however.

NVIDIA is not going to do that.

 

[Arachnotronic]

https://twitter.com/TEAMEVGA/status/817545425418743809

EVGA says that this is false.

 

[nurturedhate]

https://twitter.com/TEAMEVGA/status/817545425418743809

EVGA says that this is false.

That's a pretty strong denial as well.

 

[MrTeal]

That's a pretty strong denial as well.

I don't know. They didn't give it 110% effort.

 

[caswow]

why would they? amd doesnt need evga and their burning cards.

 

[tential]

https://twitter.com/TEAMEVGA/status/817545425418743809

EVGA says that this is false.

"EVGA is the #1 NVIDIA authorized partner in channel sales throughout US and UK."
...

 

[tviceman]

E V G A

V E G A

Would be great to have EVGA as an option again for video cards. I bought almost all of my Nvidia cards through them.

EVGA isn't an option for video cards now?

 

[Face2Face]

EVGA isn't an option for video cards now?

Maybe with the new ICX coolers, but I wouldn't touch one of their Pascal cards with ACX coolers. They are a great company that made a sizable mistake.

 

[SPBHM]

XFX was Nvidia only, until they wanted to sell HD 4800s I think, after that Nvidia didn't allow them to release the new high end Geforces (the Fermi I think they were, or the GTX 280?) and they kept selling some older Geforces until they were AMD only.
Asus and a few others can sell both, but

I don't think it would be sane for EVGA to do it; Nvidia is in a real high and they are one of the most recognized partners.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Possible, but very unlikely EVGA does this on their own IMHO. Unless nvidia decides to self sell all their hardware and eliminate their AIB partner structure entirely. THAT I could see happening however.

No way that's happening, unless the same 3Dfx boneheads are now running the asylum at nVIDIA.

 

[DamZe]

If they can find the right arrangement with AMD then more power to them! nVIdia's FE strategy was very disrespectufl towards their AIB partners and while I know nVidia doesn't care it would be kind or ironic if they end up like 3DFX having no AIB partners because they made all the wrong decisions.

 

[Piroko]

Aside from this probably being false -

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a market consolidation in the next two years, with one or more brands disappearing. There are simply too many SKUs and brands in the major markets right now and new brands like Manli trying to enter it too.

 

[tviceman]

Maybe with the new ICX coolers, but I wouldn't touch one of their Pascal cards with ACX coolers. They are a great company that made a sizable mistake.

Not all EVGA cards with ACX coolers were affected. Only the cards with custom PCB's had the VRMs running hot and EVGA issued a fix for current owners and corrected the issue at production. EVGA has a pretty good warranty too.

I have ACX 1070 SC and while it's not as good a cooler as MSI's twin frozr, it's capable and using a reference PCB gets better perf/w than custom AIB PCBs.

 

[Mezzanine]

Good to see EVGA denying this and thus keeping their standards high.

Knock it off.
-- stahlhart

 

[Elixer]

Why anyone continues to post anything from WCCF is beyond me.
It is pretty obvious that this "story" was false.

That site is just clickbait, and people are still falling for it.

 

[daxzy]

Good to see EVGA denying this and thus keeping their standards high.

I hear you need really high standards to blow up a Pascal card.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Why anyone continues to post anything from WCCF is beyond me.
It is pretty obvious that this "story" was false.

That site is just clickbait, and people are still falling for it.

WCCFTech is just parroting the initial rumor which came from Bits and Chips.

 

[stahlhart]

Thread closed.
-- stahlhart