XFX Europe watched how AMD was gaining ground in 2008 and after further Fermi delays it decided to team up with the red camp. XFX quickly became a trump for AMD and a close partner, while NVIDIA felt betrayed and cooled down the relationship.
XFX launched a large fleet of graphics cards based on Radeon HD 4000 and has since 2009 gone from clarity to clarity with its AMD-based graphics cards. In the meantime it kept selling NVIDIA models, but only older chips since NVIDIA refused to ship any Fermi-based solutions to XFX, while NVIDIA told other partners not to cooperate with XFX.
Before the launch of AMD Radeon HD 6000 and XFX’ third generation AMD cards we hear that the company has decided to break with NVIDIA. Even though NVIDIA has launched four series of Fermi, XFX Europe hasn’t seen any circuits and it has decided to be AMD exclusive instead.
XFX latest and last flagship with NVIDIA circuits: GeForce GTX 295
To consumers this will hardly bring any substantial changes and XFX Europe has told us that it will continue to offer support and fullfil warranties with previous customers, but sales of NVIDIA solutions stops now.
XFX says it has great plans for AMD Radeon HD 6000, but for obvious reasons it can’t say exactly what. In a week or so we will know about the first cards based on AMD Barts, Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850.
