It's pretty clear that the Nvidia grifters have no interest in engaging in a good faith discussion of a serious breach of media independence and unbiasedness.
Yeah, those aren't reviews of the latest cards. That's what I understood we were talking about in this thread - Nvidia sending HU review cards for their reviews.
The videos cover the RTX 2000 and 3000 series. Is there a new Nvidia RTX lineup based on an architecture newer than Ampere that we're not aware of?
But none of this makes how cards handle RT now and in the coming year or two something to largely ignore in reviews. Completely the opposite, in my opinion.
I think you need to revise your understanding of the word 'ignore'.
And trying to get a handle on how the cards will fare against the most demanding workloads over their service life is an important part of a review - again, in my opinion. I think HU could, and probably should, have done better in this regard.
Yes, like showing how even $700 flagships struggle to hit 30 FPS with RT, which HUB/Gamers Nexus/LTT show.
I guess those benchmarks are CPU bound.
Oh, and I think there are lots of examples already where the hit to performance is worth it for RT. I don't buy into this idea that it's not worth it, and that data on it isn't important yet.
Yes, like HUB mentioned when talking about Control and Cyberpunk 2077.
Also, define "lots", and show me an instance where I -- or anyone else in this thread -- said that the data on RT performance penalties as well as RT IQ improvements isn't important.
The whole point of our argument is that we have the data, and that the performance hits do not justify the minor IQ improvements. The exception to this rule, at present, are games like Control and Cyberpunk 2077, hence why HUB/GN/LTT do focus videos on those titles.
Nvidia actually are entitled to not give people cards. They literally are. They have a sense that they are entitled to do that, because they are literally entitled to do that.
Another straw man! Who's arguing against this?
Nvidia is of course entitle to send cards to whomever they want. Just like Apple, Intel, AMD, Asus, MSI, and other vendors.
Nvidia, are not, however, entitled to dictating the what reviewers can or should say in their reviews.
Before long I expect HU will be doing more coverage of RT, and Nvidia will be back to sending them cards. In the mean time, while it has again highlighted that Nvidia can be dicks, it's also got people talking about Nvidia's RT advantage.
This is the Barbara Streisand effect, and is free PR for AMD.
Every AMD fanboy and conspiracy against Nvidia has been vindicated, and now many people who were vendor agnostic (or with a slight preference for Nvidia) view Nvidia as the devil and AMD as the saviour of PC gaming graphics.
But hey, you do you. Let's just let all hardware companies dictate the terms of what a reviewer can and should say, and let's not allow proprietary tech get in the way of hardware comparisons! What could go wrong?