There have been rumours that Asus have been to launch an AMD-exclusive model of gaming playing cards, however the firm have made it official by including a piece onto their web site particularly for the brand new AREZ range.
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The new AMD gaming model will exist exterior of the Republic of Gamers model in what seems like a transfer impressed by the brand new Nvidia GeForce Partner Program (GPP). It was first mooted by Videocardz again across the begin of the month, and with a holding web page for the vary now showing on the Asus graphics card website we are able to most likely take that as affirmation it’s going to occur.
Well, when there are precise AMD graphics playing cards they’ll promote, anyhow.
When GPP was first unveiled there was a giant stink created in regards to the anti-competitive practices alleged by HardOCP due to a doc that they had seen the place it was written that GPP-compliant companions would wish to have their “Gaming Brand Aligned Exclusively With GeForce.”
This was interpreted as that means that companions might not promote AMD playing cards as gaming playing cards. That’s not strictly true, as Nvidia defined to us after we requested, and is evidenced now by Asus creating a brand new gaming model for his or her AMD playing cards. They’re nonetheless utilizing the identical STRIX identify, however have separated it out from below the ROG umbrella.
You might nonetheless argue that AMD will lose out by not having the Republic of Gamers branding on their playing cards, however because the AREZ vary remains to be possible to make use of the identical cooling and elements as earlier ROG AMD playing cards it’s a change in identify solely. And what number of avid gamers are swayed extra by the model identify than the relative worth and efficiency of a card?
The AREZ identify is anticipated to be utilized to present technology playing cards (given AMD aren’t going to launch any new gaming GPUs this year) with an inventory of AMD-exclusive AREZ playing cards additionally showing on-line.
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So it seems just like the GPP undoubtedly is not going to cease the likes of Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI promoting their very own AMD gaming graphics playing cards, as we mentioned proper earlier than. And AMD get their very own Radeon-exclusive ranges with out having to spend a penny themselves… although with out the Nvidia greenback serving to market the previous joint GPU ranges they could now have to speculate slightly additional money.
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