AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, RX 7700 XT Are Easy to Buy on Launch Day
The days of fighting tooth and nail to buy a new graphics card on launch day appear to be long gone. Case in point: AMD released new Radeon GPUs today, and they’re easy to buy.
Products on offer include the Radeon RX 7800 XT and the RX 7700 XT, which both received positive reviews from PCMag. Retailers—including Newegg, Best Buy, and Amazon—started selling them in the early morning and we didn’t encounter any website issues or sold out inventory from bots or scalpers hammering the retailers' platforms. Instead, we were able to add each product to our digital carts and easily reach the final checkout stage.
The same has been true for AMD’s own online store, which began selling its own reference model of the Radeon RX 7800 XT at 6 a.m. PST. It looks like the company had plenty of stock available for the $499 product; during multiple tries, we were able to add the product to cart and fly through the checkout process. (That said, the model did sell out at around 6:45 a.m. PST.)
The low demand isn’t exactly a surprise, though. It’s true that AMD’s higher-end Radeon RX 7900 models generally sold out when they were first released in December. But since then, we’ve seen ample supplies for other graphics cards during their launches, including Nvidia’s midrange RTX 4000 series models.
This is probably because numerous consumers bought desktop GPUs during the last generation, reducing the need to upgrade this time around. Still, it’s possible supplies for the new Radeon 7800 XT and 7700 XT cards could run out later today, as we saw with AMD's own online store. So interested buyers should pounce when they can.
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