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Sold out, sold out, sold out. That's what we saw over and over again this morning when trying to buy Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti.
Unfortunately, the GPU experienced the same launch-day troubles as the RTX 5090 and 5080: Low supplies and high demand made the PC graphics card nearly impossible to buy.
Best Buy and Newegg began selling various RTX 5070 Ti models after 6 a.m. PST. We clicked on numerous product listings immediately, hoping to snag at least one. But in every instance, we were eventually told that the 5070 Ti had sold out.
(Credit: Best Buy)
(Credit: Newegg)Even the most expensive 5070 Ti models were gone in seconds despite costing $250 more than the $749 starting price for the cheapest 5070 Ti models.
Meanwhile, scalpers who secured the GPUs have been listing them on eBay at inflated prices, from $1,400 to $1,600.
In some slightly positive news, Newegg will sell two RTX 5070 Ti models at $749 through the retailer’s raffle system, dubbed the Newegg Shuffle. Anyone can enter before 12 p.m. PST today. Newegg will then randomly select the winners, giving them a chance to buy the GPU models without having to battle resellers or automated bots.
Although we failed to secure the product online, it appears Micro Center has a good amount of RTX 5070 Ti inventory at its physical stores. Users have been posting photos that show some Micro Center locations with between 67 and 134 units of the RTX 5070 Ti. Unfortunately, Micro Center only has stores in 19 US states.