The popular graphics card manufacturer EVGA parts ways with Nvidia. EVGA CEO Andrew Han was reportedly dissatisfied with the collaboration.
Which companies are involved? On one side, we have the graphics card giant Nvidia. The company is known for its RTX series graphics cards and has over 22,000 employees worldwide (via Forbes).
On the other side is the comparatively small graphics card manufacturer EVGA, with 201 to 500 employees (via LinkedIn), which has been producing Nvidia graphics cards for over 17 years (via phoronix.com).
EVGA even describes itself on its LinkedIn profile as “the number 1 authorized NVIDIA partner in North America.” That is likely to change now, as EVGA has ended its collaboration with Nvidia. It seems they did not feel like they were working on an equal footing.
What happened? As reported by YouTubers GamersNexus and Jayztwocents, EVGA is parting ways with Nvidia. According to the online magazine Kotaku.com, EVGA CEO Andrew Han was not satisfied with the collaboration.
One problem was that Nvidia shares important information with the company’s partners only when it is made public at a press conference.
Additionally, according to Kotaku, he felt that Nvidia undermines partners like EVGA by selling its own “Founders Editions” at a lower price.
At this point, we embed the video from GamersNexus, which provides a detailed breakdown of the topic:
What kind of partnership was that? EVGA manufactures Nvidia graphics cards that differ from Nvidia’s in-house version, the so-called Founders Edition.
While EVGA continues to sell the manufactured 30-series cards, EVGA will not produce cards for the upcoming GPU generation, the 40-series (via EVGA.com).
Will EVGA enter into a partnership with AMD or Intel? Now that EVGA no longer manufactures Nvidia graphics cards, the question is whether they will enter into a partnership with Nvidia’s competitors and possibly distribute AMD graphics cards.
The online magazine Kotaku states regarding this question that the company will not form a partnership with AMD or Intel and it seems that EVGA might be exiting the graphics card market.
However, EVGA continues to manufacture other PC components such as motherboards, cases, and power supplies.
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