Former EVGA manager details strain with Nvidia over GPU sales

A former EVGA product manager says Nvidia’s push to sell its own Founders Edition GPUs, starting with the 2016 Pascal series, put direct pressure on EVGA and other partners. He describes slim profit margins, loss-leader pricing required to keep Nvidia’s favor, and new anti-leak tactics in the industry. Tensions reportedly grew as Nvidia increasingly competed head-to-head with its own partners.

• Nvidia’s own cards hurt EVGA’s margins
• Partners had to match Nvidia’s set prices
• Anti-leak tactics included watermarking
• High-end cards were the only profitable models