{"id":1112454,"date":"2026-01-29T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4P3L9cdvJ4Rti2jLAezoVh"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:37:25","slug":"nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-slams-nvidia-rtx-5080-as-a-monopolistic-crime-against-the-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-slams-nvidia-rtx-5080-as-a-monopolistic-crime-against-the-consumer\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as &#8216;a monopolistic crime against the consumer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>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&#8217;s new RTX 50-series of graphics cards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Endless next-quarter thinking has reduced the Nvidia brand to &#8216;F-tier value for S-tier prices,'&#8221; Snowden wrote on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Snowden\/status\/1885363355734413321\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:585px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:30.26%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"2KqtPCKVMiZngz5VQpAYjU\" name=\"Screenshot 2025-02-01 153428\" alt=\"Edward Snowden tweet where he criticizes the pricing and VRAM of Nvidia's latest generation of graphics cards.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-slams-nvidia-rtx-5080-as-a-monopolistic-crime-against-the-consumer.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"177\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Edward Snowden via X)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After leaking documents that revealed the extent of the US National Security Agency&#8217;s regime of global digital surveillance to The Intercept, Snowden avoided prosecution in the US by fleeing to Moscow, where he lives with his family as a naturalized Russian citizen. Snowden has continued to write and speak about surveillance, cybersecurity, computing, and politics in the years since.<\/p>\n<p>And I was nodding to myself saying &#8220;Yeah Edward Snowden, you&#8217;re onto something with this one.&#8221; For clarity, the $1,000 GPU with 16 gigs of VRAM in question is the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-rtx-5080-founders-edition-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5080<\/a>, which left PCG hardware honcho Dave James nonplussed in his review, calling it a &#8220;strangely unexciting&#8221; card with minimal gen-on-gen performance uplift without the admittedly impressive DLSS multi frame gen technology. The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-fe-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5090<\/a> fared a little better, with Dave praising both its standard and AI-augmented performance despite a $400 price increase over the 4090.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming RTX 5070 is promising an impressive <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/is-the-new-rtx-5070-really-as-fast-as-nvidias-previous-flagship-rtx-4090-gpu-turns-out-the-answer-is-yes-kinda\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 4090* level of performance<\/a> (with multi frame gen enabled) at $550, but that 12 GB of VRAM is concerning: In a recent video, members of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EyC2o320L3Y&#038;ab_channel=DFClips\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Foundry<\/a> discussed how it should be an acceptable amount for 1440p gaming <em>right now<\/em>, but what about down the line? My RTX 3070&#8217;s once-voluminous 8 gigs now gets slurped up immediately by any triple-A game at 1440p, and I find myself eyeballing the $750, 16 GB 5070 Ti as a potential upgrade instead.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia&#8217;s market dominance and AI business have left it pretty much untouchable, even as we seem to be getting another mixed bag graphics card generation after the unexciting 40-series\u2060\u2014that dominance may not be as iron-clad as it once seemed, though. The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/color-me-not-shocked-rtx-5090-and-rtx-5080-goes-out-of-stock-across-the-us-and-uk-in-5-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5080 and 5090 sold out immediately<\/a> at UK retailers, but it&#8217;s unclear how much that was driven by demand versus extremely limited stock, leading <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wMd2WHKnceI&#038;t=4s&#038;ab_channel=GamersNexus\" target=\"_blank\">Gamers Nexus<\/a> to deem it a paper launch. Meanwhile, the potential OpenAI killer out of China, DeepSeek, managed to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/nvidia-share-price-plummets-as-it-loses-more-than-usd600b-in-valuation-the-biggest-single-day-loss-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">slash more than $600 billion from Nvidia&#8217;s valuation<\/a> with the announcement of its new R1 AI model that demands significantly less GPU compute for a similar result to market leaders.<\/p>\n<p>What would really change things for gamers would be some consistent competition from AMD and\/or Intel. At the moment, that doesn&#8217;t seem super likely: The upcoming <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/amd-just-gave-us-our-first-look-at-the-radeon-rx-9070-xt-and-rx-9070-rdna-4-gpus-and-i-am-officially-whelmed\/\" target=\"_blank\">RX 9070 has so far only left us whelmed<\/a> at best with its leaked benchmarks, and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/new-intel-battlemage-graphics-cards-spotted-but-they-may-not-be-the-cut-price-rtx-4070-killers-were-all-desperate-for\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intel&#8217;s upcoming Battlemage cards<\/a> look to be moving in the right direction, but aren&#8217;t world beaters quite yet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"d0361b5f-6646-404f-a985-f70049130ffc\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-slams-nvidia-rtx-5080-as-a-monopolistic-crime-against-the-consumer-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"d0361b5f-6646-404f-a985-f70049130ffc\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-slams-nvidia-rtx-5080-as-a-monopolistic-crime-against-the-consumer\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s new RTX 50-series of graphics cards. &#8220;Endless next-quarter thinking has reduced the Nvidia brand to &#8216;F-tier value for S-tier prices,&#8217;&#8221; Snowden wrote on Twitter. &#8220;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.&#8221; (Image credit: Edward Snowden via X) After leaking documents that revealed the extent of the US National Security Agency&#8217;s regime of global digital surveillance to The Intercept, Snowden avoided prosecution in the US by fleeing to Moscow, where he&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-slams-nvidia-rtx-5080-as-a-monopolistic-crime-against-the-consumer\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1112455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-1112454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized 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