No GeForce RTX 5060 Review On Launch Day, No Driver

I was hoping it would trade blows with a RTX3070Ti, but it can't keep up with a RTX3060Ti
 
Grimlakin said:
Yea... because that's the solution you want for raytracing... at 320*200!
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1080p DLSS quality with transformer model should work for most games

In some games drop to DLSS 4 balanced

Forget native 1080p max for 2025 games
 
What might help explain this push, though, is Nvidia’s seeming need to make its founder’s new vision for gaming into a reality. At CES 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang kicked off a huge debate about “fake frames” among PC gamers when he suggested they were the future of graphics — effectively, that the idea your game should draw each and every scene 60, 120, or more times per second will seem antiquated. That AI not only can, but should fill in the gaps.

It’s not so far-fetched an idea: as my colleague Tom Warren noted in January, “so much of modern gaming is already ‘fake,’ and it has been for years.” That might be why Nvidia has been so pushy about reviewers adding such comparisons to their reviews. (Nvidia has even bugged us to include MFG results in our AMD reviews, a request we’ve largely ignored.)


https://www.theverge.com/pc-gaming/672637/nvidia-rtx-5060-review-meddling-gamersnexus-wake-up-call


Here are the tactics that Nvidia reportedly just used to throw us off the 5060’s true scent, as individually described by GamersNexus, VideoCardz, Hardware Unboxed, GameStar.de, Digital Foundry, and more:

  • Nvidia decided to launch its RTX 5060 on May 19th, when most reviewers would be at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, rather than at their test beds at home.
  • Even if reviewers already had a GPU in hand before then, Nvidia cut off most reviewers’ ability to test the RTX 5060 before May 19th by refusing to provide drivers until the card went on sale. (Gaming GPUs don’t really work without them.)
  • And yet Nvidia allowed specific, cherry-picked reviewers to have early drivers anyhow if they agreed to a borderline unethical deal: they could only test five specific games, at 1080p UPSCALED resolution, with fixed graphics settings, against two weaker GPUs (the 3060 and 2060 Super) where the new card would be sure to win.
  • In some cases, Nvidia threatened to withhold future access unless reviewers published apples-to-oranges benchmark charts showing how the RTX 5060’s “fake frames” MFG tech can produce more frames than earlier GPUs without it.
 
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