Gamers Nexus investigating Nvidia
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Follows on from this video and from past bullying tactics from Nvidia against smaller reviewers to do what they say instead of maintaining independent integrity and perform honest reviews.
Ps. Did you know the RTX 5060 was out today, no, because no one's been allowed to reviewed before launch, I wonder why? Surely it's not because it will be bad, surely.....
phil4 said:
That sounds more like they've already decided.
And what exactly does "officially" mean in this context?
They covered the breach of trust recently. Hardware Unboxed had similar experiences a couple of years ago. nVidia appear to be using "turn of the century Intel" like tactics and I hope a light is shined upon any and all shady dealings. Not sure what needs to be "decided" in a case like this with multiple examples already out there and I expect "officially" in this context will be similar to the reporting of other companies' shady tactics to the relevant authorities. nVidia might be a multi-trillion dollar company but that doesn't excuse it for acting in bad faith.And what exactly does "officially" mean in this context?
Suitably dramatic headline but they're a news site not the FBI!
Nvidia being s
ts isn't exactly new, EVGA bailed a while ago over exactly this.
Need to wait to hear if any of these claimed behaviours are illegal vs just the dominant player who doesnt really need the business not having to care how they treat people.
The two big problems are that people probably will still want Nvidia's product, and that the consumer GPU market isn't anywhere close to being their main business any more so they probably aren't hugely bothered how it goes; worst case they can bail on the whole thing.
Nvidia being s
ts isn't exactly new, EVGA bailed a while ago over exactly this.Need to wait to hear if any of these claimed behaviours are illegal vs just the dominant player who doesnt really need the business not having to care how they treat people.
The two big problems are that people probably will still want Nvidia's product, and that the consumer GPU market isn't anywhere close to being their main business any more so they probably aren't hugely bothered how it goes; worst case they can bail on the whole thing.
Yeah, it looks like NVidia abuse their dominant position to try to pressurise reviewers to focus on the features that they want to emphasise on their new kit. In this case, frame generation.
Not great behaviour ethically, but hardly a crime.
I can understand why Youtubers like GN and HUB would want to hit back though - as the main reason that the legacy 'access' media has crashed out is that people are choosing to watch independent outfits that they feel they can trust.
As for NVidia, their gaming cards are become more and more about fancy AI-type features like frame generation and DLSS (both of which basically generate additional pixels or even entire frames, or both) rather than delivering big improvements in raw performance which is what gamers typically want to see most of. So, I can also see why they would want to generate some buzz for the AI features so as to make their cards actually look like they are worth the price.
Not great behaviour ethically, but hardly a crime.
I can understand why Youtubers like GN and HUB would want to hit back though - as the main reason that the legacy 'access' media has crashed out is that people are choosing to watch independent outfits that they feel they can trust.
As for NVidia, their gaming cards are become more and more about fancy AI-type features like frame generation and DLSS (both of which basically generate additional pixels or even entire frames, or both) rather than delivering big improvements in raw performance which is what gamers typically want to see most of. So, I can also see why they would want to generate some buzz for the AI features so as to make their cards actually look like they are worth the price.
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