NVIDIA Allegedly Prefers Reviews to Be Published After Sales Start

Sure thing, let’s dive in. So, imagine this — NVIDIA is pulling this move that’s got everyone kinda squinting, you know? They’re not rolling out the driver for the RTX 5060 before… drumroll… May 19th. That’s the day the GPU magically appears on shelves like a shy debutante.

Okay, NVIDIA and their driver delay. Yep, eyebrows are definitely shooting upward when we talk about the GeForce RTX 5060 8GB. I mean, it’s one of those “wait, what?” moments. We’re like 11 days — or, you know, give or take — from the actual retail debut of this new GPU. They teased us with this and the RTX 5060 Ti last month, right? But there’s this itch, this sneaking suspicion that maybe this GPU is like, hiding something under its hood. Like NVIDIA is playing peekaboo to distract us. Who knows?

So here’s the scoop: the driver, that piece you’re usually dying to get your hands on? Not happening until the GPU is officially out there in the wild on May 19th. Seems like if you’re the impatient type ready to order day one, you might miss out on those juicy reviews. Igor’s Lab spills the beans — no driver till the 19th, and guess what? That’s exactly when Igor’s out and about, not able to get into test mode till, uh, May 26th. Feel the irony?

And, there’s Computex smushed into all this. Tech folks, bless them, are gonna be off in Taiwan, eyeballing new shinies in person. Major distraction, right? Hardware Unboxed is in the mix too, nodding along. They’ve got RTX 5060 samples ready to test but oh no — no driver, no review drama.

NVIDIA doing a hide-and-seek with the RTX 5060, much like it did with the 8GB 5060 Ti. Strategy? Release during Computex when everyone’s too dazzled by the lights of Taiwan to notice. Sneaky, or just me being cynical? Ah, who knows. Tech reviewers are basically, like, hands tied without an early driver to tinker with.

Now, gamers — yeah, all eyeballs on reviews before dropping cash, and yet here’s a GPU possibly slipping through with only NVIDIA’s possibly rosy specs. Fancy that. A promised 25% raster performance boost sounds snazzy but needs the thumbs-up from real reviewers, right? Right.

The 5060 struts in with the same old 8 GB VRAM — and in today’s gaming universe, that’s like bringing a spoon to a knife fight. RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB kinda flopped, remember? Perhaps NVIDIA wasn’t down for a repeat performance with reviewers throwing shade early on.

Is this the part where I shrug and say “who knows?” Perfect. Until next time, tech adventurers.