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Gamer Nexus - BLACKLISTED by AMD | AMD's Dirty Tactics

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Good that Nexus stood their ground or?

For months, AMD has refused to respond to GamersNexus' queries relating to the company's driver support or abandonment of actively sold products (like the Z1 Extreme), political donations, seemingly anti-consumer lobbying efforts that bulldoze peoples' rights, and other topics relating to both AMD's hardware and AMD's backroom games it's playing with megacorporations and government agencies. Now, AMD has decided not to sample GamersNexus for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU reviews, suspiciously following a blackout period of communications (again, including pro-consumer driver support questions) and our prior coverage of AMD's descent into what we think is corruption.
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BLACKLISTED by AMD | AMD's Dirty Tactics​


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6O4LCmah98
 
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For sites that have put up statements about not getting a sample, you can check out their musings as follows:
TechPowerUp believes that AMD was review shopping for outlets that would give them favorable coverage knowing that more in depth testing may result in a collective yawn from reviewing pundits. They also indicated the usual retail backchannels that have been used in the past were also not available due to strict AMD instructions.

https://www.thefpsreview.com/2026/04/21/sorry-folks-no-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-review-today/
 
I'm all against greedy corporations but there is literally no new information in this video beyond the first minute where he says AMD no longer responds to their emails or gives them testing samples. Beyond that the video is just a remix of his previous video about AMD 's lobbying and cozying up to the administration.
 
A bit a sense of grandeur that one (or just a sense for click-baiting/narrative/storyline), I mean maybe... but a bunch of people did not get sample of that very niche product, including TPU of all people....
 
MrGuvernment said:
This, and I think many people have been saying this for a long time, AMD cares about you as much as Intel, or NVIDIA or any other big corp, they do not care at all in the end.
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I think that's not quite right. They want your money, and they care insofar as they'll do whatever they can to get your money...right up until your money is no longer significant.
 
Not even sure what caring would mean here, of course they care about "you", specially at the top, probably more than you do with your clients at your job (they are paid way more to do so with quite the direct line for rewards if they satisfied customer (i.e. make money)) and get litteral crowd chearing on stage/public discourse/media coverage when they deliver something you like...

What would you gain if GamerNexus got to make a cpu review 2 weeks from now versus right now ? the only person being hurt... is gamerNexus, is your organisation/lab/etc... that much in a rush to order those ?, for what other product do we care about day 1 review and all the cost that it involve to have an industry controlling it by paying reviewer with early access
 
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Honestly I prefer it when reviewers buy their own hardware rather than relying on review sample handouts. The later opens the door to potential bias. I'm not worried about GN having a bias at this point, but too many other reviewers out there are all too happy to keep their reviews positive in order to make sure that the free hardware keeps flowing in their direction. Then there is also the possibility of cherry-picked review samples altering data, which again is not an issue if the parts are simply bought retail. Don't let a company put a noose around your nuts and just hope that they aren't going to tug on it when it suits their purposes.
 
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It is more that, I agree, not getting early samples means your reporting will be out of date by the time they may get one, by having to buy one..

But also, if a site is known for reputable, unbias reviews, people will still give the clicks for revenue to watch Gamer Nexus, or whom ever, to see their truthful review of it, vs early reviewers who just claim "This is the best CPU EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
 
AMD is a publicly held company that has a fiduciary duty to its stockholders. So what is really telling us that we already do not know?

If there is true "anti-consumer" activity, this is something that should be brought up to the FTC.
 
polonyc2 said:
Gamers Nexus is turning into the ResetEra forums
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It is getting bad. For every good/cool thing Steve/GN crew do they turn around and step on a rake. I lasted 2mins on that video this morning realizing it was a nothing burger other than AMD doesn't want in depth reviews, apparently from anyone and the price is $900. That tells you all you need to know. It is a meh product or a bad one. Not surprising.
 

No Ryzen 9950X3D2 for TechPowerUp, Gamers Nexus, or ComputerBase​

by W1zzard Yesterday, 21:36 Discuss (94 Comments)
If you've been refreshing our front page today looking for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 "Dual Edition" review, I don't have good news for you: we won't be publishing a review, because we had no access to a review sample. AMD typically reaches out to us, offering to be part of the reviews, but not this time. So, after waiting for a few days, I reached out to them, because I would have loved to test this really interesting SKU, but I was told no samples were available for TechPowerUp.

We're not alone. As VideoCardz noted in their review roundup, Gamers Nexus reacted strongly after being denied a sample, ComputerBase, one of the top publications, was also denied, just like many others that you know for their deep, methodical testing—exactly the kind of reviews that dig into cache behavior, inter-CCD latency, power scaling, and per-game CCD parking quirks, which on a part like this are arguably the whole story.
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Looking at who did get samples, and what some of those reviews look like, it's difficult not to read this as a deliberate curation of outlets that either tend toward favorable conclusions or simply don't do in-depth testing. For example, one review of this $900 chip—a product AMD is happy to let its partners market as a gaming halo SKU—tested just a single game, and used an RTX 4090 for testing. For a premium CPU pitched as a gaming flagship, a one-game sample on an old GPU is, to put it gently, not what you'd expect. The vast majority of "application" testing in those reviews is based on the typical synthetic benchmarks that you see everywhere: Cinebench, 7Zip, AIDA, not much that's actually real-life.

AMD has also been unusually aggressive with retail channels. Shops were given strict instructions not to sell or loan any 9950X3D2 units to media ahead of the official on-sale date, which is tomorrow. I reached out to several retailers anyway, people who I've known for over a decade, and who are personal friends, but they said there was nothing they could do, because AMD had threatened serious consequences if units went out to press early. The usual backchannel for getting an early retail unit for review has been deliberately closed off.
 
Mazzspeed said:
I don't really care for tech Jesus, unlucky for GamersNexus they don't get review samples off AMD anymore I guess.
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My heart bleeds. You guys would not believe how much money I spent on hardware over the years when we got "black listed."

I think my favorite was when we sourced Intel's next-gen CPU and published the review before the embargo date, after Intel would not supply it. Can't remember which CPU it was right now. All the tech journos cried foul saying I broke embargo/NDA. I did not agree to any embargo or NDA. I went to China, bought the CPU, and published the review. Fun times.
 
DanNeely said:
While the most flashy impact, it's also relatively easy to work around at the cost of not being able to do release day publications.
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The hard part is not working around it, it's loosing out on the early clicks. Sure, their loyal fans will still watch their review later, but the random passerbyes will just go to the reviews uploaded first.

Of course this matters very little now, as the crypto and now the AI bubble has virtually killed all excitement for HW. I don't even follow HW news anymore, why should i car what won't I be able to buy?
 
M76 said:
Of course this matters very little now, as the crypto and now the AI bubble has virtually killed all excitement for HW. I don't even follow HW news anymore, why should i car what won't I be able to buy?
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You are correct. Gotta get some folks on this that have loyalty to the community.
 
M76 said:
Of course this matters very little now, as the crypto and now the AI bubble has virtually killed all excitement for HW. I don't even follow HW news anymore, why should i car what won't I be able to buy?
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Yep, I've got no plans for any form of upgrade in the near future, I refuse to pay current pricing on pure principal alone.
 
I stopped paying attention to sites like GN a long time ago once they figured out that sensationalist content and hit pieces made for more views than actual tech content.

With the tech sector sucking the teats of the AI boom they don’t really need to care about end users anymore, so none of this should really surprise anyone.
 
SunnyD said:
I stopped paying attention to sites like GN a long time ago once they figured out that sensationalist content and hit pieces made for more views than actual tech content.

With the tech sector sucking the teats of the AI boom they don’t really need to care about end users anymore, so none of this should really surprise anyone.
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The frustration comes from the fact the AI revolution wasn't possible without the gamer and enthusiasts community keeping the ecosystem alive until some big alternative uses showed up. And now that's it's here, that same community is an afterthought at best.
 
The teen drama queens of YouTube are far more entertaining than any hardware review could ever be.
 
FrgMstr said:
My heart bleeds. You guys would not believe how much money I spent on hardware over the years when we got "black listed."

I think my favorite was when we sourced Intel's next-gen CPU and published the review before the embargo date, after Intel would not supply it. Can't remember which CPU it was right now. All the tech journos cried foul saying I broke embargo/NDA. I did not agree to any embargo or NDA. I went to China, bought the CPU, and published the review. Fun times.
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That is commitment!
 
Honestly he has become more and more unwatchable.

Since he has decided he is a documentarian getting political and questioning companies political donations. YA fuck em.

Companies don't have to play nice with anyone. No one is entitled to review product. If your going to turn into a bunch of assholes questioning every move a company makes trying to weaponize politics against them... expect to not be in their good books no. I'm sure Nvidia and AMD have about had it with Gamers Nexus. I'm sure he is questioning Intel right now about the % of the company owned by Trump... err I mean the federal gov right? Or I guess he wasn't a big enough documentarian yet to be asking those questions while he was at their US tax payer paid for fab projects.

Honestly at this point Tech Jesus needs to check himself. He isn't the industry moral authority and his acting like it has become grating. I don't blame AMD for ghosting him. He has transitoined from a tech reviewer to a tech industry moral crusader... as long as your morals align with his poltics it seems anyway.
 
FrgMstr said:
My heart bleeds. You guys would not believe how much money I spent on hardware over the years when we got "black listed."

I think my favorite was when we sourced Intel's next-gen CPU and published the review before the embargo date, after Intel would not supply it. Can't remember which CPU it was right now. All the tech journos cried foul saying I broke embargo/NDA. I did not agree to any embargo or NDA. I went to China, bought the CPU, and published the review. Fun times.
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I don't remember exactly what CPU it was either, but I remember it being somewhere around the time of the 8086K or the 7980XE.
 
FrgMstr said:
My heart bleeds. You guys would not believe how much money I spent on hardware over the years when we got "black listed."

I think my favorite was when we sourced Intel's next-gen CPU and published the review before the embargo date, after Intel would not supply it. Can't remember which CPU it was right now. All the tech journos cried foul saying I broke embargo/NDA. I did not agree to any embargo or NDA. I went to China, bought the CPU, and published the review. Fun times.
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I can't remember the exact model either. I do remember that one. You guys were ahead of your time. If only you had been 15 years younger Kyle you too could have a repair matte, t shirt selling business as well. I think the documentaries you would have been shooting by now would have been much more [H]. lol
 
SunnyD said:
I stopped paying attention to sites like GN a long time ago once they figured out that sensationalist content and hit pieces made for more views than actual tech content.

With the tech sector sucking the teats of the AI boom they don’t really need to care about end users anymore, so none of this should really surprise anyone.
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Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed are the only two tech reviewers I know who don't pull out Cinebench and Geekbench, or at least run these exclusively. This is still better tech journalism any other tech news source right now.
 
Sucks AMD limited the places to review the chip. I also am not surprised either as their is little appeal to this chip, so yeah they wanted glowing reviews. With how close the next gen chips are, does it really matter, as they are selling these to people that just have to have the best right now. I can't imagine it selling well.
 
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