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Captain_Yuri said:

Dell intentionally crippled Alienware m15 R5’s GeForce RTX 3070 GPU by disabling 10% of cores

https://videocardz.com/newz/dell-intentionally-crippled-alienware-m15-r5s-geforce-rtx-3070-gpu-by-disabling-10-of-cores



I think we all kinda knew that it was intentional but actually hearing them admit that it was intentional is on another level of stupidity. Idk what makes some of these companies hate AMD so much but man, this is userbenchmark's level of bullshittyness. It's quite a shame because their Alienware laptops have some of the best designs in the market in terms of looks as they are the few laptop manufacturers that do white laptops really well.

Possibly the same that made the OEMs do similar stuff about 20 years ago: Fear of loosing their goodwill and standing with Intel - and more importantly the good deals they have with Intel. I remember that in 2004 AMD once wanted to literally give away some chips to some OEM and they refused for this specific reason, as it would have meant that the prices of Intel chips would skyrocket for them if they would take those AMD chips.

It's bullshit, but that fear is sadly very real.