Low Supplies Means New Nvidia RTX 3050 Is Pretty Much Sold Out Already

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There will likely be people reading this who have tried to get hold of a new Nvidia or AMD graphics card to no avail. About a week ago, AMD's RX 6500 XT was sold out almost immediately after launching, and prices on eBay had skyrocketed. Some likely wondered whether team green's latest budget card would also suffer the same fate, and it looks as though stores are already out of stock of the company's new product.

According to a recent report from Tom's Hardware, the Nvidia RTX 3050, which was released just a day ago, is nowhere to be seen in terms of availability. Some of the big suppliers, such as Newegg, Micro Center, and Best Buy, are already sold out of the newly-released GPU. At the time of writing, it looks as though customers are not going to be able to get hold of the product just yet. It's unsure why it's sold out so quickly, but it's likely to be a combination of demand not meeting supply, and the fact that getting a new graphics card is hard enough as it is, so many will likely have purchased one the second it went on sale.

Nvidia Gets Flak as It Compares Upcoming RTX 3050 To Five Year Old GTX Card

Last year, it was suggested that supplies of Nvidia GPUs could drop by a third for the month of September, and this latest development shows that things don't seem to have improved much. This is all despite the fact that team green seemed fairly confident that it could improve supplies of the RTX 3050 upon release. Whether this is something that will be acted upon in the future remains to be seen, but for the time being, the market, and subsequently the customers, are still suffering.

The fact that the RTX 3050 is apparently bad for cryptomining could also explain it being sold out so quickly. Given that mining is being