AnandTech is reporting that some on-line retailers are already receiving GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards. Furthermore, they are selling them to users already and are shipping them out. Anandtech contacted Nvidia about the matter. Nvidia’s response was that the April 12 date was not a hard launch. Therefore if an on-line retailer receives the card early, they are free to sell it and ship it out. Wide availability should follow next week, just as planned. However, you should be aware that not all the cards are selling for MSRP. A quick check of NewEgg.com shows that no cards are available. From the article:
As for current availability and pricing, it’s highly variable. Some etailers are holding to MSRP and as such are quickly selling out, while other etailers are charging more than MSRP (e.g. $400 for a GTX 470) and still have cards in stock. The fact that anyone is charging MSRP right now is a good sign that pricing shouldn’t get too far out of hand, but we’ll have to see how things go next week. In the mean time if you’re dying to have a GTX 400 card, you should be able to get a GTX 470 right now but you’re going to be paying entirely too much for it.
