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The cards are not even being sold at the advertised price. Aggregators like hardwaredeals.co cant find any listed for $299 from reputable merchants.
against two weaker GPUs (the 3060 and 2060 Super) where the new card would be sure to win.
IIRC they also insisted multi-frame generation be used, which the 3060 and 2060 Super don't support. That's why the 4060 isn't allowed, it does support MFG and it'd sink the plan to inflate 5060 benchmark results with fake frames.
The specific games using specific settings at 1080p bit is because in 2025 they have to carefully choose scenarios that won't overflow the tiny VRAM of the cards and tank performance to below the level of the 3060 12GB.
Shout out to Hardware Unboxed for getting a 5060 review done at Computex with some amazing B-roll
Disgusting.
This would be sad and highly unethical if coming from some small, relatively new company, struggling to keep up. But since it's coming from a large, monopolistic and 30yo old corporation it becomes way worse.
I'm glad I stopped buying their cards. My last one is an AMD, and I'm going Chinese for the next one (a decade or so from now).
Please name and shame reviewers who accepted these conditions.
In my honest opinion: Everyone that's not "woken up" by now, and already years earlier, is most likely metaphorically dead.
Or an accomplice
"Reviewers" need to understand that, unless they paid their own money, from a bog-standard store, on or after release day, they are not reviewers, they are hired spokespeople.
In the case of gamers nexus, who paid for their own, they were still pressured by nvidia
Often times reviewers will get cards before release day without going through the manufacturer, as cards will ship to wear-houses and stores in preparation for launch day, and reviewers can get access to buy the cards early through contacts at those places.
One of the things nvidia did this time was they blocked reviewer’s access to drivers until release day, despite them having the cards through third parties.
People accused MKBHD for "killing" products with his reviews. Both cannot be true
Yup. Customers gotta note and avoid the untrustworthy spokes people, otherwise there is no downside for the spokesperson.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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