Nvidia decided to cancel the recently announced GeForce Partner Program (GPP). We are happy with the decision regardless of the reason.

ASUS' compliance with the GeForce Partner Program is next level indeed, with a whole new branding, AREZ, for AMD Radeon GPUs.

NVIDIA is at the top of their game right now. They have the largest cut of the GPU pie, and they actually have top-end GPUs that AMD’s current lineup is just unable to match. However the recent NVIDIA GeForce Partner Program has been scrutinized by HardOCP, and they have found quite a few worrying points.

Lack of transparency

If you read NVIDIA’s blog post, they actually mentioned transparency twice in the article. However as Kyle Bennett of HardOCP found out, transparency is hard to find. He mentioned that OEMs and AIBs are mostly keeping mum about the terms of the GeForce Partner Program. Those who did speak up didn’t have anything positive to say. No idea [...]