Several weeks after its launch it is still very difficult to find in the stores a family graphics card GeForce RTX 50 with a price aligned with its official cost. The easiest model to get with a price Similar to the marked by Nvidia It is the GeForce RTX 5070but the others or have an important extra cost or are not available. In this scenario it is understandable that users who have decided to get one of these graphics cards are disappointed.
Many of you have clearly expressed it in The comments of our articlesand forums dedicated to PC hardware are full of users They complain due to the low availability of the new NVIDIA graphics cards. Given the circumstances, the company led by Jensen Huang has been forced to face with the purpose of appeasing players and trying to explain what is happening.
This is Nvidia’s response
As we can see in the graphics that we publish on the cover of this article, Nvidia says that during the first five weeks after the launch has distributed twice the graphics cards of the GeForce RTX 50 family that on its day of the range GeForce RTX 40. However, this explanation deserves a calm analysis. And, as they point out in Tom’s hardware and Redditthis comparison does not scrupulously reflect what is happening.
During the first five weeks of the launch of the GeForce RTX 40, only the RTX 4090 was available
Jarred Walton, one of Tom’s hardware editors, explains very well: During the first five weeks after the launch of the GeForce RTX 40, only the RTX 4090. This graphics card arrived on October 12, 2022, and the RTX 4080 landed on November 16, just five weeks later. All users know that RTX 4090 is not an adequate graphic solution for a wide range of players or for its price or for their benefits.
However, during the first five weeks after the launch of the GeForce RTX 50 family, the four graphics cards that are currently available: the RTX 5090, the RTX 5080, the RTX 5070 TI and the RTX 5070 arrived. The first two landed together on January 30, 2025, while the GeForce RTX 5070 TI arrived on February 20. Finally, the GeForce RTX 5070 appeared almost at the end of this period: on March 5.
If we have all this present it is reasonable to conclude that the comparison made by Nvidia It is not balanced. Not even accepting the possibility that this company has added the RTX 4080 to the figure of the GeForce RTX 40 family. Hopefully both availability and prices are normalized as soon as possible for the good of users.
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