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Is there a deeper meaning behind this? Is it likely to imply that stock is low/late? Or do manufacturers sometimes scuttle review programs when the card underperforms expectations? Does anyone have a sense of how unusual this is and what it's likely to mean? The article does a good job reporting the facts, but doesn't offer much analysis of them.
They might decide to seed review units to fewer reviewers for any reason, but in the past every time they've had reviews embargo'ed until release, the card was trash. This makes sense really, if the card is good then you want people to read a review, be excited and buy a card. But if the card is bad, you want people to remain excited, buy it on release before looking at reviews.
To me, this screams that Nvidia thinks their card isn't really a compelling offering at that price point, and that reviews would point this out and negatively impact sales. Of course once the card is out you can't control reviews, so the embargo gets set at release (the reviewers still get cards early but can't talk about it).
From what I read on released specs, it's pretty underwhelming for the price especially compared to the previous gen
That single quote could basically capture this entire generation.
Praying that intel can actually drive more competition and make GPUs exciting again