US EditionSapphire PR manager wishes AMD and Nvidia would let partners run wild with design — wants freedom to bring back Toxic line more often
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Sapphire Wants AMD To Get Out Of The Way And Let It Go Nuts With GPU Designs
You may not realize it, but we've been here doing our thing since 1999; we remember the good (and bad) old days. Time was, graphics cards were a wild market. You could find Quantum3D Obsidian Voodoo cards with double the RAM and an extra TMU compared to the competition. As late as the GeForce256, you could find cards with hot-clocked RAM and
In an interview with the YouTube channel, The Hardware Unboxed, Edward Crisler, of SAPPHIRE offered a plea for greater freedom in the creation of graphics cards, while aiming directly at AMD! What flows from meaning, since SAPPHIRE con tains and distributes exclusively AMD cards, the man believes that AMD should be content with providing GPUs and chips, while indicating the requirements necessitating compatibility with the cards, then leaving th…
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World NEWS LiveSapphire PR manager wishes AMD and Nvidia would let partners run wild with design — wants freedom to bring back Toxic line more often
PR manager at Sapphire, Edward Crisler told Hardware Unboxed in a podcast that he wishes chip makers (like AMD and Nvidia) would let AIB partners roam free and build creative graphics card designs without restrictions.
In an industry where the differentiation between graphic card models is sold as an added value, rarely in the history of this sector will we see statements as clearly as those released by Sapphire's PR. In a recent conversation within the podcast of The Hardware Unboxed, Edward Crisler, representative of Sapphire and one of Radeon's historic and exclusive AIBs, left an uncomfortable reflection: the partners, Sapphire in this case, throws a criti…
Sapphire wants AMD to have more room for design for partner graphics cards. The exclusive partner sees the strict specifications as a brake for true product differentiation and innovation.
AMD's AIB Partner Wants More Design Freedom for Extreme OC GPUs
AMD's AIB partners are speaking up as they express more design freedom for their GPUs. According to Sapphire, AMD-exclusive GPU AIB, they are limited in their ability to modify the card and must adhere to chipmaker's official design rules. However, they now want more freedom to make GPUs focus on overclocking, extremely silent operation, and other traits that PC enthusiasts will appreciate. In a Hardware Unboxed interview with Ed Crisler, PR Man…
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