Whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 leaked classified documents to the press revealing the existence of an extensive US digital surveillance regime, has come out as a surprisingly scathing critic of Nvidia's new RTX 50-series of graphics cards.
"Endless next-quarter thinking has reduced the Nvidia brand to 'F-tier value for S-tier prices,'" Snowden wrote on Twitter. "5070 should have had 16 VRAM minimum, 5080 24/32 SKUs, 5090 32/48/+. Releasing a $1,000 GPU in 2025 with a crippling 16 GB is a monopolistic crime against the consumer."
