“Even if reviewers already had an RTX 5060 GPU in hand, Nvidia cut off most reviewers’ ability to test it before May 19th by refusing to provide drivers until the card went on sale. (Gaming GPUs don’t really work without them.)

And yet Nvidia allowed specific, cherry-picked reviewers to have early drivers anyhow if they agreed to a borderline unethical deal: they could only test five specific games, at 1080p resolution, with fixed graphics settings, against two weaker GPUs (the 3060 and 2060 Super) where the new card would be sure to win.”

https://www.theverge.com/pc-gaming/672637/nvidia-rtx-5060-review-meddling-gamersnexus-wake-up-call

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

Nvidia reportedly attempted to delay, derail, and manipulate reviews of its $299 GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card, breaking trust in the process.

The Verge

Here’s Gamers Nexus’ report on this from a few days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiekGcwaIho

NVIDIA's Dirty Manipulation of Reviews

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If the pool were any dirtier it'd just be soil
@jalefkowit Probably using a Hollywood PR company.
@jalefkowit So, it's not very good, then. We should thank Nvidia for spelling that out.