A blog post titled 'NVIDIA is full of nonsense' has become a hot topic, with many people saying that NVIDIA's graphics cards are too expensive and have low performance and quality, 'They inflate the performance with DLSS,' 'They make a lot of demands on reviewers,' etc.
NVIDIA has a huge influence in the GPU field, and in recent years has been growing rapidly,
NVIDIA is full of shit - Sebin's Blog
https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/
◆The price is too high
First, Sevin mentions that graphics boards equipped with NVIDIA GPUs are too expensive. For example, the official page for the GeForce RTX 5090, the top model of the GeForce RTX 50 series announced in January 2025, states that the price is 'from 393,800 yen.'
However, immediately after the release of the GeForce RTX 5090, there were many products that exceeded 600,000 yen, and even at the time of writing when prices had settled down, they were still being sold for around 500,000 yen. On Amazon.co.jp, the cheapest product is the '
It seems that overseas, it is in a state where 'new products cannot be obtained in the first place.' Online shops such as Newegg are selling GeForce RTX 5090-equipped cards at prices such as $ 3,359.99 (about 490,000 yen), but it seems that they are sold out immediately after the start of sales.
On the other hand, second-hand sales platforms such as eBay have ample stock and are selling them at premium prices. The following product is being sold for 3,349.95 euros (about 575,000 yen).
◆ DLSS is used to camouflage processing performance
NVIDIA has touted that the performance of the GeForce RTX 50 series is dramatically improved compared to the previous generation, and CEO Jensen Huang has said that the GeForce RTX 5070 has the same performance as the GeForce RTX 4090.
DLSS is a technology that uses AI to support game frame drawing, and includes a super-resolution function that 'renders each frame at a resolution lower than the final rendering resolution and stretches the low-resolution frame' and a frame interpolation function that 'predicts and draws frames between each frame using AI.' DLSS 3's frame interpolation function was to 'insert one frame between each frame,' but DLSS 4 supports
Although the GeForce RTX 50 series has improved frames per second (frame rate) over the previous generation model thanks to DLSS 4, Sevin points out that 'raw performance without DLSS has not improved significantly.'
The video below is an official NVIDIA demo video of Cyberpunk 2077 being played at 4K resolution with ray tracing enabled on a GeForce RTX 4090. With DLSS 3.5 disabled, the frame rate is around 20 FPS, but with DLSS 3.5 enabled, it is possible to play at around 95 FPS.
Cyberpunk 2077 | 4K DLSS 3.5 Comparison - YouTube
And below is a demo video of Cyberpunk 2077 played under the same conditions on a GeForce RTX 5090. When DLSS 4 is disabled, the frame rate is around 27 FPS, but when DLSS 4 is enabled, it can be played at a frame rate of over 230 FPS.
DLSS 4 vs DLSS Off Comparison | Cyberpunk 2077 - YouTube
As you can see from the two videos above, NVIDIA is promoting the idea that 'by enabling DLSS, you can play high-quality games at high frame rates.' However, when comparing frame rates with DLSS disabled, the GeForce RTX 5090 only improves by around 7 FPS compared to the previous generation model. And yet, the price of the GeForce RTX 5090 is higher than the previous generation model.
Some people may think, 'If enabling DLSS improves the frame rate, then surely that's fine?' However, to get the most out of DLSS, support must be provided by the game itself, and it also has the problem of 'degradation in image quality.'
As mentioned above, DLSS's super-resolution function involves a processing step of 'stretching low-resolution frames.' This stretching process can sometimes cause issues such as ' blurring of characters, weapons, etc. '
In addition, the frame interpolation function can sometimes generate corrupted frames due to the nature of the process of 'predicting frames based on previous and next frames.' You can get a good idea of what a corrupted interpolated frame looks like by watching the video below from around 19 minutes and 36 seconds in .
Fake Frame Image Quality: DLSS 4, MFG 4X, & NVIDIA Transformer Model Comparison - YouTube
If you look at the character's feet, you'll notice that the area around the shoes is not drawn properly.
◆ Not improving unsafe designs
When the GeForce RTX 4090 was released in 2021, several users encountered the problem of 'melted connectors.'
The cable melting problem is thought to be caused by imperfect cable insertion, but the design of the GeForce RTX 30 series had a safety measure that said, 'If power is not supplied correctly due to improper cable insertion, the graphics board will not turn on.' In the GeForce RTX 40 series, a design change allowed the graphics board to operate even when power was not supplied correctly, which resulted in the melting problem. NVIDIA continues to use problematic designs in the GeForce RTX 50 series, and there is still a risk of cable melting.
By the way, AMD's senior marketing director has appealed on X (formerly Twitter) that their designs are more secure than NVIDIA's.
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— Sasa Marinković (@SasaMarinković) November 17, 2022
◆ High demands on reviewers
It is customary for reviewers to publish detailed review articles and review videos around the release of new NVIDIA models. However, it has been reported that NVIDIA is now asking reviewers to highlight NVIDIA's latest technology when reviewing.
For example, when the hardware-related YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed posted a review video of the GeForce RTX 30 series in 2020, they received a notice from NVIDIA stating that they would discontinue providing the review product if they did not mention not only rasterization performance but also features such as DLSS.
A similar notice was also sent to Gamers Nexus , a YouTube channel with over 2 million subscribers. NVIDIA's response puts pressure on reviewers to 'create content that meets NVIDIA's requirements,' which could lead to PC gamers not being able to obtain unbiased information.
NVIDIA's Dirty Manipulation of Reviews - YouTube
Too much focus on AI chips
Sevin believes that the reason NVIDIA continues to practice such tyrannical practices is because the PC gaming market is no longer important to NVIDIA. The chart below shows the percentage of NVIDIA's sales revenue from 'data center and AI processors,' 'PC GPUs,' '3D analysis GPUs,' 'automotive GPUs,' and 'mining GPUs.' NVIDIA is earning a large amount of sales from processors for data centers and AI, and the importance of PC GPUs is decreasing.
In addition, looking at the results of
Here's a look at the share of GPU models used by Steam users. NVIDIA GPUs are at the top of the list.
Based on these facts, Sevin said, 'NVIDIA is the clear winner of the GPU wars. The losers are all of us.'