Nvidia’s RTX 5060 review debacle should be a wake-up call for gamers and reviewers

Nvidia has gone excessively far.

This week, the institution reportedly attempted to delay, derail, and manipulate reviews of its $299 GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card, which would usually beryllium its bestselling GPU of the generation. Nvidia has repeatedly and publically said the fund 60-series cards are its astir popular, and this twelvemonth it reportedly tried to guarantee it by withholding entree and pressuring reviewers to overgarment them successful the champion airy possible.

Nvidia mightiness person wanted to forestall a repetition of 2022, erstwhile it launched this card's predecessor. Those reviews were harsh. The 4060 was called a "slap successful the look to gamers" and a "wet fart of a GPU." I had guessed the 5060 was headed for the aforesaid destiny aft seeing how reviewers handled the 5080, which likewise showcased however small Nvidia's hardware has improved twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth and relied connected bundle to marque up the gaps.

But Nvidia had different plans.

Here are the tactics that Nvidia reportedly conscionable utilized to propulsion america disconnected the 5060's existent scent, arsenic individually described by GamersNexus, VideoCardz, Hardware Unboxed, GameStar.de, Digital Foundry, and more:

• Nvidia decided to motorboat its RTX 5060 connected May 19th, erstwhile astir reviewers would beryllium astatine Computex …

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