NVIDIA Reportedly Prefers Reviews to Be Published After Sales Begin

NVIDIA’s driver shenanigans for the RTX 5060 are kind of weird, if you ask me. I mean, we’re 11 days from this thing hitting shelves, and NVIDIA’s being all hush-hush with the driver. Why though? Maybe they don’t want us to peek behind the curtain too soon?

So, the RTX 5060’s supposed to drop on May 19th, and they’re holding back the driver. Like, really? It’s as if you’re all set for a road trip, but oh wait, no keys until the day of. Igor’s Lab mentioned that NVIDIA won’t be letting the driver loose ‘til the 19th, that’s coincidentally when NVIDIA is showing off at Computex. Yeah, right when tech media folks are busy doing their thing in Taiwan. Coincidence? Hmm, I don’t think so.

Hardware Unboxed joined the chat and said, even though they’ve got RTX 5060 samples lounging around, they’re sidelined without the driver to do reviews. Imagine having the cake and not being able to taste it. Frustrating, isn’t it?

Anyway, gamers bank on reviews before splurging on a GPU, right? But now, thanks to NVIDIA’s tactics, they’re stuck with only NVIDIA’s numbers. Which, let’s be honest, are often as exaggerated as those late-night infomercials.

They promise 25% better raster performance compared to the old one. But you can bet your left sock you’d want some outsider to confirm that before you leap. Here’s another curveball: Even if the RTX 5060’s got speed, it still clings to that old 8 GB VRAM which feels a bit like rocking a new smartphone but with only 8GB storage in 2025. Does anyone even make those anymore?

Which might explain why NVIDIA kept the RTX 5060 Ti reviews off-limits at launch too. Can it really keep pace with the latest game demands? Probably not, but then again, we’ll only know once the reviews roll out. Trust but verify, right?

Credit goes to Igor’s Lab for the scoops.