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 RTX 50-series allotment «in record time».
That's according to a press release 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 minutes.» That certainly jibes with my own experience of the launch, where it seemed like across all the US and UK retailers, the cards were gone in five minutes.
Newegg stocked a wide range of different cards from Nvidia's add-in board partners, but it also stocks a load of different prebuilt gaming PCs which sport the green team's two new GPUs.
From its own brand, ABS, to iBuyPower, Skytech, and Yeyian, the PCs were the reason it took as long as 20 minutes to entirely sell through.