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It was no where near as bad as NVidia's launch, I was watching the AMD subreddit during launch and lot of people got one. There were many shops which had them on sale. I even saw some on sale myself but didn't buy one. So I don't think it was a paper launch this time around.

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It was very model specific. 5950Xs and 5900Xs were gone within a few seconds, 5800Xs were up for a few minutes, and 5600Xs were available for almost an hour in some cases.

This aligns with reports of retailer inventory, where availability of high end models was extremely limited, but there were many more of the mid-tier models.

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