• themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They might decide to seed review units to fewer reviewers for any reason, but in the past every time they’ve had reviews embargo’ed until release, the card was trash. This makes sense really, if the card is good then you want people to read a review, be excited and buy a card. But if the card is bad, you want people to remain excited, buy it on release before looking at reviews.

    To me, this screams that Nvidia thinks their card isn’t really a compelling offering at that price point, and that reviews would point this out and negatively impact sales. Of course once the card is out you can’t control reviews, so the embargo gets set at release (the reviewers still get cards early but can’t talk about it).

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      1 year ago

      This is definitely a PR thing. The 4060 Ti was universally panned, as was the 4060. They aren’t seeding units to reviewers this time around because they know that 90% of the review is going to be pointing out that the extra 8GB of ram doesn’t help a card with the same memory bandwidth as a GTX 780.

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        I think this is the context I was missing. I haven’t followed hardware developments closely enough to know that the 4060 series had a history of poor price/performance, or to extrapolate that to the likely implications here. Thanks for catching me up.

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      From what I read on released specs, it’s pretty underwhelming for the price especially compared to the previous gen

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        That single quote could basically capture this entire generation.

        Praying that intel can actually drive more competition and make GPUs exciting again