I suppose a sort of good thing is tech channels like PC world are irrelevant compared to many other tech youtubers because most people can see through the nonsense of sponsorships and paid advertisements those channels push. Promoting the the 4090 as "gpu of the year" has to be some of the most distorted bias I've seen yet, since the card is unaffordable to like 95% of the gaming market,though it's unsurprising as the flagship cards always get all of the hype. The flagship cards from Nvidia have had problems for a few gens now, the 2080Ti was affected by artifacting, the 3090 was failing from the game New World, yet everyone blamed the game instead of Nvidia, the 3090Ti had overheating VRAM because some of it was on the back of the card, and the 4090 was affected by the defective 12vhpwr connector yet everyone insisted people were plugging it in wrong instead of it being called out as a serious issue. And then nvidia quietly updated the power connector to one less likely to fail. I recall the media put more attention on AMD for a few defective vapor chamber coolers, much more than the melting power connector ever got.
These reviewers are missing the point entirely as handheld systems are getting more powerful while being a more accessible gaming platform than a desktop PC, people will pick up a Steam Deck or ROG Ally instead of dropping $4k on a PC with a 4090, as most care about playing enjoyable games than paying to be a beta tester for buggy games with some shiny RTX thrown in to sell the game.
Yet reviewers will praise the 5090, even though its rumored to have "AI" ray tracing and new features only available on the 50 series. If a card is over $1000 I expect it to be able to run the latest titles without needing graphics trickery and fake frames, but reviewers and users love Nvidia for feature lock in while causing the market to stagnate on the low end and midrange. It really should be the complete opposite, because the gaming community would be better off with the same features available to every brand. I haven't seen it this bad here either since I've been here, interesting my post gets hit yet someone calling AMD shit doesn't, I'm either being targeted here, or supporters and the mindshare get away with more stuff. Twitter must be an absolute dumpster fire, though I don't use it.
It is indeed disappointing how every reviewer used to focus on price/performance but that seems to have gone away in recent years as GPU prices have only gone up, and it will probably only get worse as the rift between midrange and high end gets farther apart as Nvidia controls the market.
