NVIDIA does not want the review of the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti to be done by anyone, asking for a lot of data and vetoing media

It seems that NVIDIA is forcing manufacturers to send a list of which media will test the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti and decide if it is suitable or not.

We are all like chicken without a head to see the real performance of the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX and it is that they are graphics that are giving much to talk about for better or for worse. The new RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 will hit the market on September 20, but on September 14, reviews should start jumping everywhere. During all this time NVIDIA has barely allowed leaks and those that do exist are questionable. Now HardOCP, a media with a great reputation claims that NVIDIA is very much controlled who will receive its graphics.

NVIDIA wants to control who gets the new RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards.

According to this medium, companies that work with NVIDIA must communicate to NVIDIA itself which media will receive which model and it will be NVIDIA itself who approves or rejects the delivery to a certain medium so that reviews can be made. From Hardwaresfera we can already tell you that in principle, we will not receive any graphics since NVIDIA Spain cut relations with us a few months ago without giving us any explanation.

NVIDIA has required partners to let them know who will review their custom GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080 graphics cards. Other reviewers emailed us indicating specific data from the reviewers to provide to Nvidia, such as "Who will conduct the review?" "What is your phone number and email address for that person?" That's a bit strange, since I've never seen this after 20 years of analyzing graphs.

In the past, partners were pretty much left to run their own review campaigns with the arrival of a new graphics card, but that seems to have come to an end. From these reviewer lists submitted to Nvidia by the partners, Nvidia has created its own list of “approved reviewers” ​​and has sent its approved list back to the partners to let them know who is allowed to review the new sample graphics cards.

The HardOCP medium has indicated that they have consulted their attorneys whether they should sign this NDA in question and have recommended that they should not sign it and that no medium should.

If I'm a journalist, I probably won't sign it. You could choose multiple items but basically it is meant to provide strong control over journalists' work product.

The definition of confidential information is too broad. The biggest thing I have ever seen in my life, and I have seen and written and applied a lot of these. Also, the typical exclusions for confidential information are not provided, but exist in common law anyway. The length of the 5-year obligation is just stupid for this kind of technology. It's pretty ridiculous from top to bottom.

It should be noted that NDAs are common and we have signed several. Basically for us they are a formalism because we do not intend to publish a review before the date indicated. Some media are experts in skipping the NDA and that nothing happens, although at some time this practice has been close to costing a displeasure not only to the medium, but also to the third parties who were involved and who trusted in the good faith of that medium. that we doubt will happen again.