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Yet you admit to owning a 3090... if it was that important to you, GPP would have kept you from buying a $1500 Nvidia product. Suggesting you won't tell the plebs you know to buy Nvidia anymore rings pretty freaking hollow when you own their current Halo product. lol
I didnt intend to buy a 3090, I will stop here except to say, I felt it necessary to point out that their top card buyers are just as pissed with NVidia as everyone else.
Fair... sorry I know my post sounded pretty damn harsh. In general it simply feels like most of the most outraged by Nvidias BS (this isn't the first or even worst example in the past year or two) also seem to be the people lining up for their stuff launch day. We all understand wanting to own the best and fastest crap here. My bad for being a bit of a dick to you specifically.
That is incorrect. They are not a fan of the performance it brings. It it today a mostly useless feature. I would rather have straight up performance imo. And I know a lot of other peopple feel the same way.
Care to back that up, cupcake?
When there are only hardware "influencers" left, where will you turn for GPU reviews to base your purchasing decision on?
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It is not just cost it is access, if your competition has the cards 2 weeks before you their content will either be much better and much sooner, I imagine views on hardware reviews are extremely frontloaded.
Well yes they can still do reviews if they want. Has for being for the consumers, if you are a not paying anything, ask yourself if you are the "customer"
In this case, since most people wanting a card could not get them, either from AMD or Nvidia. A delayed, better researched, honest review would probably stand out loud and clear above other manipulated ones. I think reviews stand on their own merrits and the reputation from the site will carry them through, in Hardware Unboxed case they will probably get more views as time goes on due to their competence and honesty.
Agreed.That is exactly what I am describing. You purchased based on value or performance. Nvidia, as despicable as they had been, had performance.
Now, AMD has value or performance and you are purchasing based on that. It makes it easier to justify the purchase because of Nvidia shenanigans but that is not the driving factor.
If the Radeon 6XXX series had been an absolute dud, I would guess you probably would have bought Nvidia again.
When the rubber hits the road, the corporate ethics point goes out the road in favor of value or performance.
And I'm not calling you out, I have bought intel many times after the anticompetitive BS they have pulled over the years.
IIRC, even Kyle has a 2080Ti and Nvidia was trying to fuck him after GPP story.
sure Nvidia wants fair treatment but strong arming peeps is not the way to do it
Watch some of their reviews, they are very good, reasoning is all up front, they make corrections when they discover something or come to a different conclusion. If I was a company, making computer products and I think I have the cat's meow, this would be the site I would give samples to.
The youtuber can still do or say whatever he wants on his channel... He just isn't getting free parts. Strong arming? If Nvidia was suing him, then that would be an appropriate description. They are not.
you heard me right, strong arming as who can get a flagship on release day. most all reviewers get them some time beforehand and are done with their reviews well before launch day... of course you knew that, right?
It is harder to stand out once it has been weeks with tens of thousand of people having them becoming your competition, the incentive to play game to keep access is great (how many people made some nice presentation of 8K gaming for example, that was a lot of money to say no too), free hardware is nice money when you are a small independant review and the money from the first days of release as well. And people that did early reviews will be able to do more detailed one has well.
Not free and quite later in some case, there is zero doubt a company has absolutely not the first moral/legal obligation to send people free stuff in advance, but it is in general a good idea for consumer and the press to force them into doing so (for their own benefit).
Except at this time that is not the case, a long line of folks wanting to get a card and not able to. Plus most of the cards sold for a generation are not sold the first month or months after launch. A later review if one does not have earlier access can cover stuff not known before, user experiences reported, issues, fixes which would still be appropriate to the ones already owning etc. Gaming benchmarks with new games highlighting for example features and if useful or not. Harder work but also an opportunity and respect that a smarter reviewer would seize on. Day one reviews in most cases fall short, do not catch major issues in many cases, can be manipulated etc. The rat race to get it out also may appear to be beneficial to a site but mistakes due to lack of time, lack of info and evaluation can cause more harm then good I do believe in the long run.
Just got through reading, geez what a shitstorm, I imagine Kyle had a few sleepless nights around that time.
For that reviewer need to stop to accept any form of early access and hardware from them, accepting anything of them is almost by default accepting to be considered by company part of the marketing machine. You will otherwise only receive hardware if you play ball or from people that have no choice (i.e. Apple can easily skip you)
Cant fault this, this is my goal as well. I would say that no offering by NVIDIA or AMD could really hold 60 fps with all the bells and whistles at 4k until now. That made grabbing a 5700xt as an upgrade to my 980ti much easier.
Nvidia has been anti customer since it's inception. They've monopolized the consumer graphics industry.