Nvidia’s ‘priority access’ program is one way to get your hands on an RTX 4090

The GeForce RTX logo on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition.
Some lucky shoppers will get to buy these early. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge

In a recent post on the GeForce forums, an Nvidia community manager announced that the company is testing a new program called “verified priority access.” The program will give some potential shoppers the opportunity to reserve a GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics card without the kerfuffle that can sometimes be required to get their hands on a new GPU.

The program, as VideoCardz correctly pointed out, is a similar idea to EVGA’s Elite Priority Access system, which gave the company’s “Elite” members 24 hours of exclusive early access to its new products. Elite status didn’t cost money — users who were active in the company’s forums and Twitch streams or who had purchased and registered EVGA products recently were eligible....

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