Gamers and reviewers should learn from the mess with the Nvidia RTX 5060

(theverge.com)

Comments

brudgers 24 May 2025
Way down in the article:

Nvidia’s networking business is now bigger than gaming, which now represents less than 10 percent of Nvidia’s total revenue. The company makes more pure profit from AI in a single quarter than total gaming sales in a year.

This is a rational rationale to explain why Nvidia is not terribly interested in all the bullshit that B2C requires in general and the oceans of it that the gamer segment of the market involves.

Case in point, the article is drama. The card is not awesome and probably just reflects a new process in manufacturing and was engineered to translate existing performance to that new process. In other words it was designed to be good enough and the release strategy was simply to provide multiple press-releases in the form post-boomer press releases take.

My thought is "are ordinary people feeling outrage, or just the people who get free GPU's for review?"

altairprime 27 May 2025
This article is hard-paywalled for me partway through; “subscribe to the verge to continue reading”. Is a mirror available?