There’s never been a better time to ditch Nvidia GPUs

But between the anti-competitive mess with the GeForce Partner Program, the way the company cloaked how much money it was making off the crypto bubble (which got so bad shareholders filed a lawsuit), and now the incredible shortage of high-end GeForce GPUs due to the AI boom, I just don’t feel good about giving Nvidia money anymore.

And hey, the company doesn’t need my money anyway. These days Nvidia is raking it in selling high-end hardware for AI data centers and so the widespread complaints about the company “manufacturing” its own shortage of high-end graphics cards don’t really hold water with me.

Not because it’s not true—good luck finding an RTX 5090 for less than the price of a used car these days—but because Nvidia is a public company motivated to make money for itself and its shareholders, so of course it’s going to focus on serving the customers who are most willing to pay for its high-end hardware: AI companies.

I know I’ve written about Nvidia’s declining interest in PC gaming before, but I enjoyed some fresh perspective on the topic courtesy of this week’s episode of The Full Nerd. The crew ended up…