NVIDIA shipped twice the amount of GeForce RTX 50 Series “Blackwell” GPUs than it did for the GeForce RTX 40 Series—its previous generation of graphics based on the “Ada” architecture—during the first five weeks of their respective launches, according to a new slide that the company shared today as part of the early festivities for this year’s GTC conference, which will be taking place from March 17–21 in San Jose, CA.
See below for the slide from NVIDIA, which many critics of the company say is questionable for a few reasons, including the lack of a Y-axis label on the chart:
Justin Walker, Sr. Director of Products at NVIDIA, has also told an outlet that green team has been working with its AIB partners to ensure two things: (1) that more GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs are available to customers, and (2) that Blackwell graphics cards will be available at MSRP:
We are working closely with not just our AIB partners but also our retail partners to make sure that the supply is available at MSRP. In the end, the best way to do that is is get more supply onto a shelf. As soon as the supply catches up to demand, we expect prices to stabilize.
As for what else Walker had to say at this time regarding GeForce RTX 50 Series availability:
Shipments have already ramped up.