One of the cards was available on Newegg for over an hour before it finally sold out.
If you tried to buy AMD’s latest PC graphics card this morning, you might have actually pulled it off. The Radeon RX 6500 XT, launched today, starts at $199, but its low-end specs and the ensuing mediocre reviews may have diminished demand for the PC graphics card. We saw this play out on Newegg, which began selling the 6500 XT around 9 a.m. EST. Although a few of the models seem to sell out in minutes, one of the products, the Gigabyte Gaming OC, remained up for sale for over an hour—a rare sight, given the current demand for GPUs. At 9:30 a.m., we tried to purchase the card, and to our surprise we were able to reach the final stage of the checkout process. The card then sat in our cart for another 40 minutes before it was finally listed as sold out.
