Long lines formed outside physical stores with stock, such as Micro Center in the United States,[10] and Dospara [ja] in Japan.

[11] Twitter users reported that they used bots to buy large numbers of cards to resell for higher prices.

[13] On October 2, Nvidia announced that it would delay the release of RTX 3070 cards by two weeks to guarantee availability.

[14] On October 5, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced delays due to supply shortages, which were expected to go on until 2021.

[15] On October 9, the company announced that all Founder's Edition graphic cards in the United States would temporarily be sold via Best Buy, while the official web store would be upgraded to improve the shopping experience.

[20] In an effort to limit purchases by cryptominers, Nvidia announced in February that the RTX 3060 cards would be able to detect algorithms for mining of the Ethereum cryptocurrency and halve the hash rate.

EVGA has a system designed to put people into a queue; the goal is to prevent cards from selling out quickly and decrease wait time.

[84] The performance was praised, as the 3090 Ti "will likely be the go-to GPU for creative professionals that need brute force in their day-to-day work."

"[84] PC Gamer described the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 as a "frankly enormous graphics card", which is "supremely powerful" and "more worthy of its Titan credentials than the GeForce branding", as for the average gamer "it doesn't deliver enough over the RTX 3080 to make sense, but for the pro-creator it's a workload-crushing card.