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Wow, Nvidia have banned Hardware Unboxed from receiving review samples...
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So you too think Nvidia are trying to control the narrative?
I would prostitute my integrity for a 3090
No, i see it as simple as :
I give free products to reviewers to be unbiased. Reviewer is biased and hides a big part of my advantage while showing off specifically what advantages the competitor. I tell them to **** off and buy their own gpus.
Simple yes?
Here's their 6800/6800xt review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtxrrrkkTjc&t=1191s
As you can see only SOTTR and Dirt 5.
Biased.
Steve Burke (Gamers Nexus) only reviewed Control, Mine Craft and SOTTR, Not one AMD title, is he bias?
But that's not the deal - Nvidia give you cards to review under strict instructions of what and how to bench the cards and then ban you if you don't do exactly as they say.
Last time I checked - that's not unbiased!
For the record this would be equally scummy if AMD did the same to a reviewer that leaned more on the RT benches over rasterrization because that's what's imporatant in their eyes.
I just told you what he did, you don't to watch it, you have the information right there. using your own yard stick is he bias?
Hardware Unboxed Took out the only AMD sponsored RT title they had with his 6900XT review, is he now bias the other way?
So you too think Nvidia are trying to control the narrative?
I would prostitute my integrity for a 3090
Get in the queue
pushing it a little. They can choose who to send FREE PRE-RELEASE products to whomever they like. Does it make Nvidia look good? No.
Yes, checked his vid, you can see my reply. About the 2nd part of your post, they prolly felt the heat already from NV and decided to play ball, too late though.
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This all goes back to the scrutiny of Nvidia NDA 2.0. "Solely for the benefit of...nvidia". Thats one shifting goal post thats hard to keep scoring in. That happened right after that GPP scandal.
It is like going to an arcade putting your money in that basketball game in which the goal keeps moving about. Except this time if you miss once you are blacklisted. Rofl
So I take it Steve decided to be a reviewer instead of an influencer. That's too bad because Nvidia seems to Blacklist people for doing that.
It is like going to an arcade putting your money in that basketball game in which the goal keeps moving about. Except this time if you miss once you are blacklisted. Rofl
So I take it Steve decided to be a reviewer instead of an influencer. That's too bad because Nvidia seems to Blacklist people for doing that.
Get in the queue
Queue? damn, i'll be rich enough to buy one before one becomes available.
Reading this i'm reminded how JayZ2Cents likes to call himself and influencer these days.
Would explain why there's so many charts for ray tracing performance from the same three games in everyone else's reviews. I kept skipping past it as it's pretty irrelevant to anyone that isn't working for Nvidia's marketing department.
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It is part of the requirement of signing an NDA from Nvidia. I guess he's being cheeky.
"Solely for the benefit of..."
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I found it very strange that HU video today on Cyberpunk deals with a whole raft of resolutions and settings, yet when it comes to testing ray tracing they left out any kind of DLSS numbers, and then trashed the game for RT Ultra being unplayable. It's like...er what? I'm having a brilliant time playing this game and obviously as an Nvidia user I'm going to enable DLSS along side Ray Tracing, that's the whole reason DLSS was invented in the first place to allow RT effects to be done at low resolution and scaled up to the nice high def displays we use today. Then they went on to say that image quality wasn't really a big deal between medium and ultra...er what. If you want a real in depth look at the differences then take a look at Digital Foundry videos on that stuff, there's a huge difference.
If I was running Nvidia and spent years working on all this tech to give gamers a truly next gen experience and saw their cyberpunk review, I'd pull review access as well. If it's not deliberate (I'm not accusing anyone of anything) then it's seriously negligent. I've also seen other stuff from them in the past I'm not all that happy with, benchmark scores that are outliers compared to their peers and stuff like that.
If I was running Nvidia and spent years working on all this tech to give gamers a truly next gen experience and saw their cyberpunk review, I'd pull review access as well. If it's not deliberate (I'm not accusing anyone of anything) then it's seriously negligent. I've also seen other stuff from them in the past I'm not all that happy with, benchmark scores that are outliers compared to their peers and stuff like that.
It would, very odd that isn't it, they all have the same selection of a few games.
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@PrincessFrosty
Perhaps his view point doesn't line up with your own. No worries there are plenty other 'influencers' who have provided the level of marketing material you so desire.
Perhaps his view point doesn't line up with your own. No worries there are plenty other 'influencers' who have provided the level of marketing material you so desire.