Rumor: NVIDIA Prefers Reviews to Be Published After Sales Begin

Oh boy, so here’s the scoop—or maybe it’s more like a rant—on this whole NVIDIA thing. Why do they always do this, right? Anyway, here we go.

Picture this: It’s 11 days before the big drop of the GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB. Yep, NVIDIA was all about hyping it up alongside the 5060 Ti. But guess what? There’s a catch. Like, why are they keeping the driver’s release on the down-low until May 19? Almost feels like they don’t want us to actually know how this thing performs until we’re already in too deep, right? I mean, makes you think.

Igor’s Lab mentioned—okay, maybe “reported” is more like it—that the public driver won’t see daylight until May 19, which coincidentally is when Computex also kicks off. Crazy timing, huh? By the time reviews roll out, you might’ve already hit that pre-order button. Been there. Igor’s even said he’s stuck at Computex, unable to test the card until later. Talk about bad timing.

Computex is like this mad dash of tech glitz and glam, so who’s gonna be back to try anything out right away? Odds are, reviewers aren’t too thrilled. Hardware Unboxed talked about how the media circus will keep them tied up, unable to spill the beans about these GPUs before most buyers grab them. They’ve got the cards, sure, but—hold your horses—they can’t say a peep until the driver’s out. Typical move, huh?

It’s wild how gamers are like Sherlock Holmes with reviews before buying stuff. And yet, here we are, when NVIDIA’s playing coy with their numbers. Like really? We’re supposed to trust their 25% performance hype? Maybe. Maybe not. Feels like they’re sweeping the major issues under the rug again. 8 GB of VRAM might as well be ancient history—hello, it’s 2025! The RTX 5060 Ti already crashed and burned because of it, so no surprises there if this one follows suit.

Oh, Igor’s Lab, you’ve given us a nugget to chew on. Cheers for the heads up, but it’s still a mess, no?