Last month, Asus unveiled a brand-new vary of AMD Radeon RX graphics playing cards below the identify of ‘Arez‘ – , just like the god of conflict Ares, however cooler and with a ‘z’. Fast ahead to final evening, and you’ll have seen some wild rumours flying about saying that Asus have truly canned their new Arez model in favour of their basic ROG moniker after a suggestive tweet from a vaguely official-sounding Asus Arez Twitter account. Thankfully, Asus have stepped in to clear up the confusion.
As with most issues on social media, it’s all turned out to be full hogwash – perhaps even ‘fake news’ if you’ll. No, Asus aren’t placing the kibosh on a brand new model they created little over a month in the past (primarily as a result of that might be foolish), and no, it’s received nothing to do with Nvidia binning their GeForce Partner Program, both. Glad we cleared that up.
Indeed, Asus had been fast to rectify this sorry mess, suspending the offending Twitter account in query and issuing correct, official statements proclaiming that Arez continues to be very a lot alive and that something on the contrary is unquestionably not legit.
In some methods, nevertheless, the pretend tweet did make a little bit of sense – which might be why each tech website on the planet fell for it. With Nvidia having now discontinued its more and more controversial GeForce Partner Program, which rewarded third celebration graphics card producers for aligning their numerous gaming manufacturers with Team Green (and was additionally alleged to have resulted in withheld GPUs in the event that they didn’t, in response to a report by HardOCP), the necessity to have separate manufacturers for Nvidia and AMD doesn’t actually exist anymore.
Admittedly, it was by no means actually clear which third celebration producers participated in Nvidia’s associate program within the first place, as a lot of the information from HardOCP’s report was made anonymously. However, Asus’ Arez announcement (to not point out MSI’s new Mech 2 sequence of AMD graphics playing cards) definitely appeared to counsel that they had been one of many choose few that did.
Either manner, you’ll be able to relaxation assured that the way forward for at this time’s best graphics cards will stay stuffed to the brim with much more mind-boggling manufacturers and naming conventions and ‘z’s changing ‘s’s than we all know what to do with, as a result of that is what we now reside for, apparently. Thank you, Asus, for making our lives a greater, richer place.
