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Dave James

Newegg says the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 cards sold out 'in record time' with the retailer claiming its site was dealing with 'an 8-10x increase' in traffic

Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card from different angles.

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."

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