Why Does EVGA Only Use NVIDIA GPUs?

[Leyawiin]

Man why doesn't Sapphire make more Nvidia products.. geez

Or Powercolor or HIS or...

 

[Jocelyn84]

The same company owns both Sapphire and Zotac, so they make both NV and AMD cards. I know it doesn't change your point, but I think it's interesting that many people seem to think Sapphire is all-AMD, which it technically is, but its corporate sibling is all-NV.

OP, EVGA has an exclusivity agreement with NV and they are very longtime supporters of NV. I find it almost unimaginable for them to jump ship or even make cards for both, like XFX jumped ship to AMD. I just don't think NV would let that happen, and I'm not sure EVGA really wants to bail on NV, either.

Yeah, I was going for irony in my post. I changed all the Intel and Nvidia makers to AMD and AMD makers

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Or Powercolor or HIS or...

Those can, but Sapphire can't since they have an exclusivity agreement with AMD just like EVGA has one with NVIDIA. EVGA is NVIDIA's official partner; Sapphire is AMD's official partner.

 

[nenforcer]

Why does XFX no longer make Nvidia cards? Why does Sapphire, VisionTek, and PowerColor not make them? They never make boards/video cards based on Intel's or Nvidia's technology. What's up with that? Are they like monopoly to the AMD side?

This was initially reported as that XFX dumped nVidia (or vice versa), and around the GTX 200 series and Radeon HD 4000 series I guess XFX didn't like their profit margins on the high end graphics chips from nVidia and so switched to AMD ever since for the Radeon HD 5000, 6000 and now 7000 series.

However, they do continue to sell new model low end Nvidia graphics cards, i.e. GT 240, GT 430 and GT 520.

Those cards, however, are grossly underpowerd for their price range and so XFX must still like the profit margins at the bottom.

 

[blastingcap]

This was initially reported as that XFX dumped nVidia (or vice versa), and around the GTX 200 series and Radeon HD 4000 series I guess XFX didn't like their profit margins on the high end graphics chips from nVidia and so switched to AMD ever since for the Radeon HD 5000, 6000 and now 7000 series.

However, they do continue to sell new model low end Nvidia graphics cards, i.e. GT 240, GT 430 and GT 520.

Those cards, however, are grossly underpowerd for their price range and so XFX must still like the profit margins at the bottom.

How do you know those are new GT 240s and whatnot? Maybe they (meaning XFX or the stores that carry XFX cards or both) have a few mountainous piles of those low end cards and are slowly selling them off.

I mean, some vendors are still selling ancient cards like it was 2007 or something... here's an example, an XFX 8800 GTX: http://www.amazon.com/XFX-PVT80FSHF9.../dp/B000KDM2EE

Too bad the GT 240 didn't get more press, I liked it and got one for my gf on sale for ~$33 after rebate a while back as it was the best bang for the buck card that could still play Fallout 3.

 

[notty22]

PNY is also a exclusive Nvidia partner. PNY also is a card manufacturer. They make most of Nvidia's workstation/server cards as well as gaming cards for/labeled PNY and others.
They seem to get a tough rap from some, but have a USA presence like EVGA and a good warranty. The wording of which has been misunderstood, for the most part.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNY_Technologies

PNY Technologies, Inc is a manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, memory upgrade modules, as well as consumer and professional graphics cards. Headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, PNY maintains multiple facilities across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
The company’s photography, mobility, 3D gaming and business solutions are widely available from major retail, ecommerce and wholesale outlets internationally. PNY products are used by a number of Fortune 500 OEM customers[citation needed] for applications that range from high-end computing and Internet/telecommunications infrastructure equipment to desktop, notebook and network servers.


PNY Electronics, Inc. originated out of Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1985 as a company that bought and sold memory chips. To emphasize its expansion into manufacturing new forms of memory and complementary products, the company changed its name in 1997 to PNY Technologies, Inc.