AMD RX 6500 XT is on sale – but good luck finding the GPU

techradar.com:

AMD’s RX 6500 XT graphics card may be on sale now, but you’ll struggle to find the GPU at retailers, as stock seems very scarce indeed.

Those hoping to be able to get hold of the new wallet-friendly option are going to be disappointed in most cases, by the look of things. And while there might be at least some more positive news on the pricing front in the US market – we’ll come back to that point, and the discussion of how good this budget GPU is anyway – if the card isn’t available to purchase, then that’s obviously a moot point.

As Tom’s Hardware points out, US availability looked very shaky on launch day, and only Newegg.com had one RX 6500 XT model in stock, namely Gigabyte’s Gaming OC, but that reportedly kept going in and out of stock.

That was yesterday, but the situation today is that this particular Gigabyte graphics card is out of stock (due to “high demand” of course), although another 6500 XT model is now available: the PowerColor ITX Gaming.

Looking at Micro Center, no Radeon RX 6500 XT GPUs are available to buy online, but there is some stock in bricks-and-mortar stores – in very limited amounts (for example, the Gigabyte Eagle is on shelves in two stores, both of those in Ohio, at the time of writing). So it all looks pretty ropey all-round, really.

On the other hand, in the UK, things are a touch better, with Overclockers UK managing to have 10+ units of two 6500 XT models (from PowerColor, again, and Sapphire). That’s something, but Scan UK and eBuyer both have no stock, and Amazon.co.uk has just one third-party seller flogging a GPU (at a severely ramped-up price, we might add).

Certainly in the US, the situation is pretty dire, and we’d expect AMD to do better with all eyes on a big budget launch like this.