{"id":1147265,"date":"2026-02-07T07:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/WCAxDxn8kSfGCo7hntYynB"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:49:05","slug":"nvidia-says-its-sold-twice-as-many-rtx-50-series-cards-as-rtx-40-series-in-the-first-5-weeks-id-bloody-well-hope-so-given-there-was-essentially-just-the-rtx-4090-for-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/nvidia-says-its-sold-twice-as-many-rtx-50-series-cards-as-rtx-40-series-in-the-first-5-weeks-id-bloody-well-hope-so-given-there-was-essentially-just-the-rtx-4090-for-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia says it&#8217;s sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I&#8217;d bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Some dude with a mighty &#8216;tache once said, &#8220;there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.&#8221; The latter is what we&#8217;ve been presented with by Nvidia and its claims of doubling the sales of its RTX Blackwell cards over its previous generation cards in the same time frame certainly look good on paper, but absolutely deserve a little more contextualising.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, what Nvidia wants you to know is that in the first five weeks of the new RTX 50-series launch it outsold the RTX 40-series 2:1 in the same time period. The Ada generation of graphics cards was relatively positively received, despite understandable consternation over pricing and position of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-rtx-4080-16gb-review-performance-benchmarks\/\" target=\"_blank\">$1,200 RTX 4080<\/a> and the subsequently <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-rtx-4080-12gb-unlaunched\/\">unalived RTX 4080 12 GB<\/a>. So, that looks good, no?<\/p>\n<p>But we should be looking at the number of cards actually released in those relative time periods. With the new RTX Blackwell generation, Nvidia launched the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-fe-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5090<\/a> and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-rtx-5080-founders-edition-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5080<\/a> on January 30 this year, with the higher volume <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-review-msi-ventus-3x\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5070 Ti<\/a> and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-rtx-5070-founders-edition-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5070<\/a> launching on February 20 and March 5 respectively. That&#8217;s four discrete cards launching in five weeks and pretty much each of them sold out in minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Even as stock vanished sometimes before we even saw cards listed, that should equate to a fair number of sales, especially as the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 were lower priced and should have had larger volumes of cards in the channel.<\/p>\n<p>The RTX 40-series, on the other hand, only had two separate GPUs launching in those first five weeks. The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition-review-performance-benchmarks\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 4090<\/a> launched on October 12 way back in 2022, when my beard was less grey and belly less protrusive, and then five weeks later the RTX 4080 was released.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:944px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"9FR2psKjcN9P7Z5rWXh2mX\" name=\"nvidia-rtx-50-series-gpus-shipped\" alt=\"Nvidia graph showing the relative sales of the RTX 40-series vs. RTX 50-series in the first five weeks\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nvidia-says-its-sold-twice-as-many-rtx-50-series-cards-as-rtx-40-series-in-the-first-5-weeks-id-bloody-well-hope-so-given-there-was-essentially-just-the-rtx-4090-for-competition.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"531\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Nvidia)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That means, in comparison, there was just the low volume, $1,600 RTX 4090 on sale for the majority of that five week time period, and maybe we&#8217;re including the launch day numbers of the $1,200 RTX 4080 to be generous.<\/p>\n<p>You could almost then rewrite that statistic to read: Nvidia sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as the RTX 4090 in the first five weeks of sales. Though that doesn&#8217;t really sound quite so impressive, does it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"fffc9e5d-d4c4-486b-8bf0-b94892e24028\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best CPU for gaming\" data-dimension48=\"Best CPU for gaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6YnzywGGRfcnNjLz2FRjx9\" name=\"1646306533.jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nvidia-says-its-sold-twice-as-many-rtx-50-series-cards-as-rtx-40-series-in-the-first-5-weeks-id-bloody-well-hope-so-given-there-was-essentially-just-the-rtx-4090-for-competition-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-cpu-for-gaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"fffc9e5d-d4c4-486b-8bf0-b94892e24028\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best CPU for gaming\" data-dimension48=\"Best CPU for gaming\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Best CPU for gaming<\/strong><\/a>: Top chips from Intel and AMD.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-gaming-motherboards\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best gaming motherboard<\/strong><\/a>: The right boards.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-graphics-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best graphics card<\/strong><\/a>: Your perfect pixel-pusher awaits.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-ssd-for-gaming\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best SSD for gaming<\/strong><\/a>: Get into the game first.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-says-its-sold-twice-as-many-rtx-50-series-cards-as-rtx-40-series-in-the-first-5-weeks-id-bloody-well-hope-so-given-there-was-essentially-just-the-rtx-4090-for-competition\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some dude with a mighty &#8216;tache once said, &#8220;there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.&#8221; The latter is what we&#8217;ve been presented with by Nvidia and its claims of doubling the sales of its RTX Blackwell cards over its previous generation cards in the same time frame certainly look good on paper, but absolutely deserve a little more contextualising. Essentially, what Nvidia wants you to know is that in the first five weeks of the new RTX 50-series launch it outsold the RTX 40-series 2:1 in the same time period. The Ada generation of graphics cards was relatively positively received, despite understandable consternation over pricing and position of the $1,200 RTX 4080 and the subsequently unalived RTX 4080 12 GB. So, that looks good, no?&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/nvidia-says-its-sold-twice-as-many-rtx-50-series-cards-as-rtx-40-series-in-the-first-5-weeks-id-bloody-well-hope-so-given-there-was-essentially-just-the-rtx-4090-for-competition\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1147266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[791,66],"class_list":["post-1147265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-graphics-cards","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nvidia says it&#039;s sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. 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