AW: Geforce RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080: Aufregung um Testmusterverteilung
"Talking about NDAs as a whole in the industry are usually what I consider "embargo" NDAs. These NDAs are product specific and basically say, "We will give you access to the hardware, the driver, and technical documentation about Product X, and you are not to go public with any information till this date(s)." Very basic so that sites with access coordinate around a product launch date. Really that simple. Much of AMD's NDAs lately have been a simple email asking if we agree to the embargo date. It is fairly mundane and everyone understands that they just don't want benchmarks or documentation released ahead of the launch date"
"Well first of all, "AMD does it too," is not much of an argument as they are not laying out facts in how all this happens.
When AMD runs GPU launches, it many time invites AIBs to have their cards be part of the launch when it has not produced its own cards. It is AMD's launch, not the AIBs. I have never seen AMD use the driver controls put in place either. That said, recently AMD has built its own cards for launches, so AIB cards were not included.
What is different here is that AIBs are handling its launches for its cards. NVIDIA is dictating to the AIBs who and more importantly who cannot be sampled directly by the AIBs. And then NVIDIA is requiring the AIBs to identify who is getting the AIB cards, asking for names, phone numbers, and emails, so that it can control who gets the driver, most likely through a secured GeForce Experience site. These are two very different things. If those people are not able to comprehend that, and the only thing they have to say is "AMD does it too," then they do not understand what exactly is going on."
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