NVIDIA Reportedly Prefers Reviews to Post After Sales Begin

Man, so here’s the deal—NVIDIA’s doing this weird thing where they’re not dropping the driver for the RTX 5060 until May 19. Yeah, the same day it’s up for grabs. We’re like 11 days out from the GeForce RTX 5060 8GB hitting the shelves, and I don’t know, something just feels off. Are they trying to hide something about how this thing performs?

It’s like, NVIDIA dropped this GPU announcement alongside the RTX 5060 Ti last month, right? But something smells fishy—like, why are they trying so hard to keep gamers from knowing what this card can really do? I mean, come on.

Apparently, according to Igor’s Lab (thank you, Igor!), NVIDIA’s holding onto that driver until release day. So if you’re one of those folks itching to buy it right when it drops, good luck finding any decent reviews ahead of time. Oh, and funny story, Igor won’t be able to share his thoughts until ages later—he’s off on some work trip until the 26th. Typical, right?

And it’s not just him—lots of tech reviewers will be busy at Computex, checking out all the shiny new stuff from other vendors. Hardware Unboxed chimed in, saying they’re sitting on several samples of the RTX 5060 but guess what? No reviews can be published without that driver. Surprise, surprise.

Anyway, there’s this whisper going around. The word is NVIDIA’s playing this sneaky game. Drop the card during Computex when, y’know, most tech media folks are out there in Taiwan, missing in action. Kind of makes you wonder if they pulled a similar trick with the 8GB 5060 Ti.

A lot of gamers (like myself, let’s be honest) lean hard on these reviews. It’s not every day you see a launch with just NVIDIA’s claims to go on—which, let’s be real, can be kinda skewed. They say there’s a 25% bump in raster performance from the old one, but we’ll see about that once the real tests roll out—eventually.

So it’s still packing 8GB VRAM like before, but seriously, does that even cut it in 2025? The 5060 Ti with the same 8GB flopped harder than a failed parachute. Maybe they didn’t want to face the music by letting reviewers test it at launch. This bad boy might just not handle the heat of today’s games.

Catch you later with more news. Here’s looking at you, Igor’s Lab.