Edward Snowden Attacks NVIDIA for the GeForce RTX 50’s Value and Cost

We don’t often see a well-known NSA leaker express dissatisfaction with contemporary gaming hardware. It is perhaps unnecessary to introduce Edward Snowden, who did not hesitate to express his dislike of NVIDIA’s recently released RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 gaming GPUs. The majority of reviews for the RTX 5090 have been favorable, however the same cannot be said for the RTX 5080, its less expensive sister. Snowden asserted that NVIDIA is offering “F-tier value for S-tier prices” in his Twitter commentary.

Whatever way one chooses to phrase it, it is obvious that the RTX 5090 is extremely expensive. It’s also difficult to dispute that Snowden was especially unhappy with the quantity of VRAM available. Snowden feels that the RTX 5080 should have come with at least 24 or perhaps 32 GB of VRAM, but it only comes with “only” 16 GB. He goes on to say that there ought to have been a 48 GB version of the RTX 5090, which comes with an incredible 32 GB of VRAM. The security consultant stated that they would want the RTX 5070 to have at least 16 GB of VRAM rather than 12 GB.

However, Snowden had more to say than that. Comparing the sale of $1000+ GPUs with 16 GB VRAM to a “monopolistic crime against consumers,” he further charged NVIDIA with “endless next-quarter” consideration. This is up for debate because NVIDIA is a publicly traded company, and whether we like it or not, their quarterly performance ultimately determine whether they survive. Undoubtedly, NVIDIA is in dire need of some real competition in the high-end market, as this seems to be the only way to persuade the Green Camp to set reasonable prices for their hardware. In a year or two, AMD’s UDNA GPUs should be able to accomplish just that. Naturally, the remainder is still up in the air.