Nvidia's latest graphics cards have been called many things: "The most powerful graphics core you can jam into a gaming PC", "fine", "strangely unexciting", "a paper launch". And you would get to make that decision for yourself where there cards to actually buy, but Newegg has stated that it sold out of its "in record time".
That's according to a it has just sent me detailing yesterday's launch from its perspective. It's worth noting up front it hasn't said how the initial stock levels compared with its previous Nvidia GPU launches, so there are a lot of unknowns behind the numbers, but it notes that while it took 20 minutes to entirely sell out of RTX 50-series stock, that was with "most inventory claimed in just five [[link]] minutes."
"The response to the NVIDIA RTX 50 Series has been extraordinary," says Jim Tseng, Newegg VP of product management. "The overwhelming demand reaffirms the gaming and PC community’s enthusiasm for the very best technology. For our customers who have not yet been able to secure a GPU, we’re committed to working with NVIDIA and our AIB (Add-In Board) partners to ensure future restocks and continued availability."
And when will those restocks happen? Well, there was actually a second round of inventory released at Newegg a couple of hours after the launch announced via X. So it's worth either keeping an eye on the social media pages of your favorite retailers, or else keeping tabs on our own [[link]] 'Where to buy...' articles.