The endless fight between AMD and NVIDIA continues. A couple of days ago, we informed you about AMD officially working with AIBs in order to launch new “gaming” brands for its GPUs. And yesterday, AMD’s Vice President & GM Radeon Gaming has confirmed that NVIDIA has been trying to restrict or blocks AIBs from selling AMD’s GPUs under their already established gaming brands.
In a series of tweets, Scott Herkelman revealed that some of the resellers that attended AMD’s sales event in London told him that NVIDIA tried to use funding and allocation to restrict or block them from selling Radeon products.
I wanted to personally thank all of our resellers who are attending our AMD sales event in London this week, it was a pleasure catching up with you and thank you for your support. Many of you told me how our competition tries to use funding and allocation to restrict or block…
— Scott Herkelman (@sherkelman) April 19, 2018
… your ability to market and sell Radeon based products in the manner you and your customers desire. I want to let you know that your voices have been heard and that I welcome any others who have encountered similar experiences to reach out to me…
— Scott Herkelman (@sherkelman) April 19, 2018
These tweets basically confirm HardOCP’s story. As HardOCP claimed last month, the NVIDIA GPP program prohibited – among other things – third-party GPU manufacturers to use their gaming brand label on both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. And right now, there is no doubt that this story was legit.
