Tents are already starting to pop up outside of the Tustin, California Micro Center location in anticipation of the RTX release later this week. Photos of the campers were shared on the unofficial Micro Center subreddit spotted by IGN , where two tents are currently set up outside of the Tustin location. Micro Center has discouraged eager customers from camping outside of its locations, though it shared a lengthy video about buying an RTX or RTX on release day.
As previous GPU shortages can tell us, high demand and low availability is prime territory for scalpers. Even when inventory stabilizes, the price of the RTX could remain high.
There should be models available at list price, though board partners have reportedly restricted the inventory of list price models due to thin margins. As the early images of campers outside of Micro Center tip-off, cards will likely sell out immediately after release. It promised double the performance with the best graphics card Nvidia has ever released, the RTX , and it said outright that the more modest RTX could equal the performance of the last-generation king, the RTX That seems dubious, even with the hype surrounding the new hardware.
We can't officially confirm or deny such claims until the embargo lifts on reviews for these new cards, but for now, let's consider how the RTX lines up with the , to give us an idea about what to expect.
It looks like I may have played myself again. I always knew that the new AMD flagship wouldn't be able to compete against some of Nvidia's best graphics cards, but I had a lot of hope that it'd still be a great competitor for a number of other reasons. I'm not doubting the performance of the RX XT.
