is gigabyte(the company) part of nvidia?

[Whoknowsbruh]

Ok so Im super confused by this. Is the brand gigabyte part of nvidia?

[MagnusGrønstad]

1 minute ago, TechGuyMark said:

Ok so Im super confused by this. Is the brand gigabyte part of nvidia?

no.

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, TechGuyMark said:

Ok so Im super confused by this. Is the brand gigabyte part of nvidia?

No, ofc not. Gigabyte just receives chips from Nvidia and turns them into GPUs; it's not part of Nvidia, however.

[Unhelpful]

Just now, TechGuyMark said:

Ok so Im super confused by this. Is the brand gigabyte part of nvidia?

No, but Gigabyte makes their own coolers that they put on nvidia graphics cards, as do many other vendors (ASUS, EVGA, MSI, etc). So you may see an "nvidia gigabyte gtx 1080." But that just means that Gigabyte designed the cooler and/or the PCB, while nvidia designed and distributed the actual GPU itself.

[spartaman64]

its sort of like how dell releases products with intel cpus in them but they are not part of intel

[spartaman64]

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[Whoknowsbruh]

1 hour ago, spartaman64 said:

its sort of like how dell releases products with intel cpus in them but they are not part of intel

So I cant use geforce experiance on gigabyte graphics cards?

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, TechGuyMark said:

So I cant use geforce experiance on gigabyte graphics cards?

If the card uses an Nvidia GPU (such as a Gigabyte Gtx 970 or 1060), then yes. If it uses an AMD GPU (such as a Gigabyte R9 290x), then no.

[MagnusGrønstad]

1 minute ago, TechGuyMark said:

So I cant use geforce experiance on gigabyte graphics cards?

oh sure you can!

 

gigabyte outs custom coolers on nvidia graphics cards, they are still nvidia GPU's, but with a gigabyte cooler

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, TechGuyMark said:

So I cant use geforce experiance on gigabyte graphics cards?

If the card uses an Nvidia GPU (such as a Gigabyte Gtx 970 or 1060), then yes. If it uses an AMD GPU (such as a Gigabyte R9 290x), then no.

[Djole123]

If you were thinking about Gigabyte that puts their shiny new cooler on a graphics card, that's because it's a GPU vendor. What vendors do is say Nvidia: I need x GTX 1070 8GB GPUs of this size. Nvidia will provide them a PCB with the GPU and VRAM. What vendors do is mainly aesthetics. They put a cooler, some ports, maybe a custom backplate, and sometimes they overclock it a bit. Then they put a name on it, whether it's a clever one like Gigabyte's GTX 1070 Mini or something completely stupid like Asus GTX 1070 Dual.

[Djole123]

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