Caporegime
This video is a 16 minute rant as to why, almost making excuses for tech reviews taking money from one vendor to "skew" the review in favour of that paying vendor.
He says he knows some tech reviewers take money for this, he makes the point that smaller reviewers just don't make enough money from Youtube so they take the money.
What i found a little concerning in this video is it almost looked like he was trying to justify it.
What he didn't address, that i really thought he should have, is the potential customer viewing this content, in skewing the results for money, you are lying to people for money, you are misinforming people about where to spend their money, deliberately for a back hander from the vendor who results you are skewing in favour of, its not a "victimless crime" so to speak.
Take User Bench as an example, they are telling you an 8350K is better than a Ryzen 2600, it is not, not for games, not for anything, the 2600 is better in all aspects but the way in which User Bench arrogate their performance results makes the 8350K look far better than it actually is.
This is plain and simply deception, a lie, and a lot of people use it to make their CPU buying choices, that's a lot of people ripped off.
I will conclude by saying this, for the first time in a long time we have real competition again, AMD are out of the cold and genuinely competing with Intel again, and nVidia, Navi is actually a competitive GPU, the 5700XT is a very small efficient mid range type GPU that compete with nVidia's higher end RTX 2070 super for well over £100 less, because its so small it has a lot of room to grow, 60% to get it upto 4096 Shaders and with that many shaders the thing will be a GPU performance monster.
Intel nor nVidia are any longer competing with themselves and they all would rather not that be the case, with that they all want you to think it isn't.
Intel, we know are already trying to change how reviewers reviews on CPU's, they know they are beaten by AMD in heavy workloads so what they want reviewers to do is benchmark media players and web browsers.
Stuff that can run on a potato but its the best chance Intel have of not looking quite so bad when AMD's £500 CPU has similar per core performance with 50% more cores vs Intel's £500 CPU.
He says he knows some tech reviewers take money for this, he makes the point that smaller reviewers just don't make enough money from Youtube so they take the money.
What i found a little concerning in this video is it almost looked like he was trying to justify it.
What he didn't address, that i really thought he should have, is the potential customer viewing this content, in skewing the results for money, you are lying to people for money, you are misinforming people about where to spend their money, deliberately for a back hander from the vendor who results you are skewing in favour of, its not a "victimless crime" so to speak.
Take User Bench as an example, they are telling you an 8350K is better than a Ryzen 2600, it is not, not for games, not for anything, the 2600 is better in all aspects but the way in which User Bench arrogate their performance results makes the 8350K look far better than it actually is.
This is plain and simply deception, a lie, and a lot of people use it to make their CPU buying choices, that's a lot of people ripped off.
I will conclude by saying this, for the first time in a long time we have real competition again, AMD are out of the cold and genuinely competing with Intel again, and nVidia, Navi is actually a competitive GPU, the 5700XT is a very small efficient mid range type GPU that compete with nVidia's higher end RTX 2070 super for well over £100 less, because its so small it has a lot of room to grow, 60% to get it upto 4096 Shaders and with that many shaders the thing will be a GPU performance monster.
Intel nor nVidia are any longer competing with themselves and they all would rather not that be the case, with that they all want you to think it isn't.
Intel, we know are already trying to change how reviewers reviews on CPU's, they know they are beaten by AMD in heavy workloads so what they want reviewers to do is benchmark media players and web browsers.
Stuff that can run on a potato but its the best chance Intel have of not looking quite so bad when AMD's £500 CPU has similar per core performance with 50% more cores vs Intel's £500 CPU.
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