Controversy emerges after tech website Tom's Hardware publishes recommendation to preorder Nvidia RTX

[Redaktion]

When Tom's Hardware published an article titled "Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money," many figures in the tech press denounced the article as "insane" and "ridiculous." However,  Avram Piltch, the author of the article, says his work has been "misunderstood."

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Controversy-emerges-after-tech-website-Tom-s-Hardware-publishes-recommendation-to-preorder-Nvidia-RTX.324802.0.html

[Alejandro]

From the same site that recommended a few days ago to disable UAC in Windows because it's annoying to click on a prompt every now and then.  ::)

I have much respect for Tom's Hardware, I don't know what's going on there lately.

[jason storey]

His entire premise is pretty ridiculous. What kind of person says with a straight face that you can't get great 4k gaming with a measley, cheap $550 1080TI?

[Kev72]

Tom's put out TWO articles, one for purchasing and one said wait. Seems ok to publish multiple opinions. Both articles made some reasonable points and some silly ones. The whole point is to judge for yourself. This outrage seems really forced.

[heffeque]

From the same site that recommended a few days ago to disable UAC in Windows because it's annoying to click on a prompt every now and then.  ::)

I have much respect for Tom's Hardware, I don't know what's going on there lately.

Seeing the controversy generated by it, they took that specific recommendation out a few hours later.

His entire premise is pretty ridiculous. What kind of person says with a straight face that you can't get great 4k gaming with a measley, cheap $550 1080TI?

Well, if you can afford the more expensive one... why not?
Some people have more money than they can spend, and he's saying to pre-order it if that's the case because the new gen has cool things that the older gen doesn't, even if the performance doesn't end up being as strong as advertised, so I don't see the problem.

[heffeque]

Wow, a lot of my previous comment is cut out on the article's web page...

[Daniel Weible]

So, this is what passes for controversy these days?

[Tritium]

Keep in mind, this is how Nvidia competed with ATI back in the day.  They hired a marketing firm to put out false claims on the internet in order to get others to buy.  So they hit all the websites gamers would talk about their experiences, and had people who claimed the Nvidia Graphics cards 'rocked' etc.  Wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia is attempting to buy articles to promote their products.