As if more evidence was needed, it is now clear that Nvidia no longer cares about gamers, ordinary consumers and those who actually made the company what it is.
This is a chronicle by Mikael Schwartz. Here he presents his personal opinion.
At the risk of sounding like a bit of a scratched record, I want to put my opinion on Nvidia once again and how they now treat the ordinary consumer. Not only does the Geforce RTX 50 series have been a hefty clown show since launch. They have now proven that they do not care the least about ordinary consumers as long as they continue to buy whatever Nvidia spits out on the store shelves.
Since the Geforce RTX 50 series was launched, we have seen power contacts that are melting or catching fire. We have seen graphics cards delivered to consumers with incorrect specifications. Something that can result in significantly lower performance. Nvidia lied when they said that the RTX 5070 would have the same performance as the RTX 4090 (they forgot to mention the whole thing with Multi Frame generation doping the number of frames). We have seen unreasonably high and in the worst case dangerous temperatures due to substandard design on circuit boards. We have seen RTX 5060 8 GB that was never sent to reviewers but which is pure debris compared to the version with 16 GB.
RTX 5060 is the drop that runs over
There have been more misses with this generation graphics card than we are used to seeing from Nvidia. The latest is that they have apparently sent out test copies of the upcoming graphics card Geforce RTX 5060 Ti but refuses to provide reviewers with compatible drivers. These will not be available until the same day the graphics card is launched.
The problem with this is that reviewers are not given any opportunity to convey to consumers whether or not the graphics card is worth the money before it starts selling. Something that makes it all worse is that the RTX 4060 and before the RTX 3060 have been the absolute
Most popular graphics cards in Steam's hardware surveys. Thus, it is not obscure or unnecessarily expensive products we are talking about. We talk about the model that has been proven selling best in the last generations.
Even worse is that the vast majority of reviewers who today sit with a paper weight in the form of an RTX 5060 on their test benches will probably not be able to do any tests even on the launch day. Nvidia launches the graphics cards during this year's edition of the Computex Technology Fair. A fair that a large part of Techmedia visits to see the very newest as soon as possible.
This is not something “Oops”
Think what you want about Nvidia, but this can possibly be a coincidence. Nvidia is one of the world's largest companies and they have attended Computex more times than you can count on your two hands. This year they even hold the first large
The conference that kicks off the entire jeep.
Excuse my French but there is no damn chance that this would happen to be by chance. Nvidia clearly shows that they no longer need gamers or “common man” as they raise so much coals from the box of the leather jacket standing and nagging about AI for an hour and a half once every half.
It is so obvious that they care so much about the audience that made Nvidia one of the world's largest companies. Especially when they have chosen to launch the RTX 50 series in the condition it came in. It is so obvious that they do not care when they react with basically a small “oh then” when manufacturing errors are detected. It is so obvious that they do not care when they consciously hide graphics card models from reviewers. It is so obvious that they do not care as their drivers continue to destroy one thing after one. Nvidia doesn't care about us anymore.