Gamer's Nexus: EVGA terminates NVIDIA partnership

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mjk45 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

This whole story of EVGA leaving Nvidia seems like an irrational actor.
~80% of the business is GPU
CEO told Nvidia in April, before sell through collapsed to unprofitable levels.
Won't consider AMD or Intel GPU
CEO wants to retire/vacation
Glassdoor portrays him as cheap/erratic https://t.co/1hRbPLuE3R

— Dylan Patel (@dylan522p) September 16, 2022

The only reason I can think of for EVGA not looking elsewhere is the board or the CEO are delusional enough to believe that they are so important and  Nvidia's need for them is so strong that they don't need to explore other options since Nvidia will obviously offer them way better terms than anyone else could to come back.

Could be but I think it comes down to them not wanting to be in the GPU space all together. I think if they wanted to continue in the GPU space, they would have stayed Nvidia regardless of all that has come out because Nvidia has 80% of the total GPU market share of which Evga sold around 40% of the NA GPU sales. Them going AMD which barely can keep 20% of the total GPU market share and Intel which is less than 1% probably won't do them any good. It's like going from a high volume, low margin with Nvidia to going to low volume low margin with AMD.

I think it's good to remember that no one buys Nvidia because EVGA, people buy EVGA because Nvidia first and brand second and I think what EVGA has done as what Linus said is keep the gate open in case they do want to come back. Because the last thing any company wants is to be like XFX that really pissed off Nvidia and now is battling for scraps by being forced to go exclusively AMD.