Surprised no one made this before you did. I saw it earlier but to be honest as long as the cards are being replaced who cares. Only time will tell, if this is big of just the normal echo chamber.
long product life of previous generation and taunting they wouldnt release anything new since no competition, price increases, missing ship date on preorders, nothing ray tracing besides demos, BS benchmark calcuations to make RTX seem better… etc
The only strange thing here is, that from Nvidias market position they were in no pressure to release a new (technological) generation of cards. I am curious about their reasoning behind that decision. It is clear that a bit more dev time on the RTX cards would not have hurt (no matter whether the GPU failures are an actual problem or not).
It certainly feels like the RTX series is half baked IMO. The fact they are trying to release cards where Raytracing isnt performing at the solid 60FPS we know and now this feels like the cards could have done with a bit more R&D. They could have released a refresh of the 10 Series and pushed RTX back a few years.
Yeah, I agree. It is surely frustrating for the ones having to deal with this but so far this might just be a bad batch. Anyway, right now I would recommend one of these cards even less.
I can’t imagine being a professional hardware reviewer or someone that is current on benchmarks. Probably stressful as hell.
They probably didn’t want to pull an Intel and get blindsided, then have to blame their CEO for fraternizing with the staff rather than own up to their shit decisions and lackluster CPU releases over the last 7 years.
If I had to guess…
It happens, unfortunately. Sometimes shit just has to hit production before you find all the bugs and faults.
Possibly, however other than Intel they have a whole architecture at the ready. A little bit more polish and more dev time for the game developers would not have hurt methinks.