Nvidia was always famous for its aggressive marketing and its aggressive sales tactics. AMD only grew in market share because of the GPU mining craze as Nvidia has  dominated the market for the last few years now.

The Register links this sudden death decision with the fact that anti-competitive regulatory started looking at Nvidia. As soon as this happened, Nvidia canceled the controversial GPP. There was a claim that key regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and European Commission started looking into the anti-competitive nature of the program.

Nvidia basically said to its partners, including Asus, that for example Republic of Gaming cannot carry AMD branded cards as Nvidia is paying a lot into the ROG program. This didn’t look fair, but many things in life are not fair.

We were asked for our opinion about the Geforce Partner Program and the unfairness of the whole thing, but this didn’t look like something out of the ordinary. Nvidia has been known to bully its partners internally, have favorite partner(s) who tend to get more than the others, at least this has been the accusation since the beginning of time.

The more you sell, the more love you get from CEO Jen Hsun Huang, of the Nvidia kingdom, but this is not something out of ordinary in the general PC sales strategy.  

Someone at Nvidia must have realized that preventing AMD to get some of the free rides of Nvidia marketing bucks was pointless. Nvidia will be good even without this pressure on its partners. Instead of focusing on controversial marketing blockades, Nvidia should look forward to the soon-to-be-launch Turing GPU that will slaughter anything that AMD has in the pipeline.

Nvidia Turing will gain  market share anywhay

With the crypto craze fading, the GPU is doomed to fall from the 2017 numbers. Still, Nvidia will gain a lot of sales with Ray Tracing ready and the Turing Geforce scheduled for the second half of this year.

Nvidia had up to 80 percent of the market at certain times according to Jon Peddie Research. You need to be extra careful once you get to these very high market share numbers. Nvidia’s key argument is that Intel still has almost 60 percent of Total GPU market - making it the real monopoly.

Nvidia doesn’t event have a graphics related marketing program as it was never after the gaming market, but this might change in the next few quarters.  

Why don't you pull the plug

John Teeple. the chap responsible for GeForce Partner Marketing at Nvidia had the worst possible job at Nvidia as he had to admit that the company was wrong to start the GPP in the first place. In his exact words

"Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program."

Here at Fudzilla we cannot agree more with John, the whole GPU industry, partners and analysts/ journalist have better things to do than fight the imaginary marketing battles and try to help the Davids and Goliaths fight their fights.

AMD doesn’t have a high end GPU to fight the Turing arriving in 2018, which means Nvidia will make huge market gains in the super high market.

Bring on the next generation Geforce and win the market affection the right way, how hard was that?