Since the disastrous launch of the RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has been unable to escape negative headlines: scalper bots are snatching GPUs away from consumers before official sales even begin, power connectors continue to melt, with no fix in sight, marketing is becoming increasingly deceptive, GPUs are missing processing units when they leave the factory, and the drivers, for which NVIDIA has always been praised, are currently falling apart. And to top it all off, NVIDIA is becoming increasingly insistent that media push a certain narrative when reporting on their hardware.

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NVIDIA's RTX 50 series launch has been plagued by multiple issues including scalper bots, melting power connectors, defective chips missing processing units, and unstable drivers. The company continues using the problematic 12VHPWR connector despite known design flaws that can cause cables to melt under certain conditions. NVIDIA's marketing heavily relies on DLSS upscaling technology to achieve advertised performance numbers, with even flagship cards unable to run ray-traced games at native 4K resolution. The company has also been accused of pressuring tech reviewers to include specific metrics in their coverage and threatening to withdraw access for unfavorable reviews. With over 90% market share, NVIDIA's dominance has led to vendor lock-in through proprietary technologies while charging premium prices for incremental performance improvements.

NVIDIA is full of shit

These cards are 🔥🔥🔥 (and not the good kind)

The intimidations will continue until morale improves

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

Do they intend to reduce quality so customers have to buy new products sooner?

It’s as much on AMD as it is Nvidia. Despite what people may say, AMD just aren’t competitive fully with Nvidia due to their neglect of features around raw raster performance.
The graphics card department has always played second fiddle to CPUs under AMD, they were more competitive as ATI

As a great man once said, “Nvidia, f*** you”

Seems that Nvidia learned nothing from Intel.