It feels like the launch of the RTX 50 graphics card series by Nvidia could have gone better. There have been supply shortages and just a general “meh” response to the hardware. However, we’re being told the new GPUs are doing well, despite these concerns.
In fact, they’ve already outsold the previous generation, according to Nvidia. The company has said that, within the space of just five weeks, the RTX 50 series has shipped twice as many units as the RTX 40 cards. However, reports are saying this information may be misleading.
As noted byVideocardz, Team Green has shared a slide that shows how well the new-gen graphics cards are selling when compared to their predecessors, but this compares all available models in the RTX 50 series against just a couple of SKUs for the RTX 40 series.
Flawed figures
Since launching earlier this year, we’ve had the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and the RTX 5070. However, when the last generation was released in 2022, we only got the RTX 4090 in the Ada Lovelace range within a similar timeframe.
As such, it seems unfair for Nvidia to compare the current sales figures of its new graphics cards when you take into account that more variants have been made available in quick succession. Videocardz goes on to speculate that, were the data to take into account the RTX 4090, RTX 4080, RTX 4070 Ti, and the very start of the RTX 4070, the 40 series would “surpass the number of the RTX 50 series so far.”
Anyone who’s been keeping a close eye on the current PC hardware market may have already been raising their eyebrows at Nvidia’s claims. As mentioned above, the likes of theRTX 5090 have been in short supply, such that people are having to wait a long time for one, and there have beenreports of manufacturing issues. As our ownFilipasks: is it too early to say the Nvidia RTX 50 launch has been an “abject failure” so far?
