As you may already know AMD recently announced its Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3-based Vermeer desktop CPU lineup. According to AMD these CPUs will offer much better single-thread performance in PC games. AMD also lifted the review embargo and some third-party gaming benchmarks were also published.
AMD’s Zen 3 architecture promises to offer a higher boost clock, significant IPC uplift, new core layout, and a new cache topology. In fact, AMD also claims that Zen 3 offers a 19% increase in single-thread scenarios over the previous-gen CPU lineup. AMD launched four SKUs based on the Zen 3 arch, the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X and the Ryzen 9 5950X, respectively.
However, as you may have guessed the launch was again plagued by supply/stock issues, and the demand for these Zen 3 5000-series CPUs was much higher than expected. This was despite the company shipping tons of units in the first place. The CPUs were sold out immediately at major retail and e-tailer shops globally.
AMD has responded on social media and the company insists that this was not a paper launch, and the demand was too high to begin with. The company ‘shipped tons’ of processors, but they were quickly sold out. AMD’s Frank Azor responded on Twitter with a comment stating that the Ryzen 5000 release was not just another paper launch, as others are claiming.
There's a big difference between a "paper launch" and shipping tons of units but demand exceeds supply.
— Frank Azor (@AzorFrank) November 8, 2020
According to Frank Azor, there is a big difference between delivering tons of units of AMD’s products to consumers, and an actual paper launch. Frank emphasized that AMD already supplied enormous quantities to retailers and dealers, but this time the demand was far much greater than the supply.
Frank Azor is AMD’s chief architect of gaming solutions and marketing. In a previous old tweet, another user made a $10 bet claiming that AMD’s product launch is going to be another ‘paper launch’, similar to what Nvidia’s RTX 3080 GPU suffered at launch day. This prompted a response from Frank Azor.
I look forward to taking your $10 🙂
— Frank Azor (@AzorFrank) September 24, 2020
Nvidia also recently launched their RTX 3000-series Ampere lineup of GPUs, but the launch was plagued with stock availability issues since day one. Many were hoping to purchase these cards, but the custom RTX 3080 stocks were sold out immediately within few minutes at several retailers across the US, UK and Europe.
Some Major e-tailers also experienced extremely high wave of traffic, and this brought their entire website down as well.
Guru3D recently received an email from a user in the UK, who ordered an AMD Ryzen 5950X processor, and he currently sits at number 290 in the waiting queue to get his delivery from scan.co.uk. The email transcript can be seen below.
Regarding the scalper BOT protection, AMD said they did everything to circumvent the scalping of Ryzen processors, and they got some success as well, however there are still precautionary measures to be taken. Currently retailers everywhere are experiencing shortages of the new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000-series CPUs.
Despite AMD’s initiative, the scalper bots managed to grab the Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs which have now been listed at eBay with inflated prices.
— Hassan Mujtaba (@hms1193) November 6, 2020
AMD recently issued preventive measures to retailers to circumvent the scalping of Radeon RX 6000-series RDNA 2 GPUs as well. AMD will launch the Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT series of graphics cards on November 18th. The RX 6800 XT will be priced at USD 649, while the RX 6800 will be priced at USD 579.
The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT flagship card on the other hand will be available on December 8th and will cost around $999 USD. Here is hoping that the demand and supply issue isn’t that aggressive as the Ampere launch.
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Not like AMD has a history of doing paper launches like Nvidia. I’m somewhat inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Neither of them did paper launches. People keep twisting what this idiotic term means however they want. A paper launch literally means there is no product on the market. As in, zero. It does not physically exist in the world for people to purchase. Thats a paper launch, as in it only launched on paper and not in the real world.
Geforce 3080 is literally in the hands of tens of thousands of people and more are getting it every day. Wanting a card and being difficult to get because everyone else wants one is not a paper launch
Cool.
Got my new card (3090 stix oc) last week after waiting since launch, order placed less than a min after release. Sure binning for that kind of gpu along with low numbers to bin from takes time and so far it’s been well worth the wait
In Romania you can still find them in stock for now, but then again here the min wage is about 350$ a month so we don’t have the same buying power as countries where the min wage is like 1200$
How much is the tax and VAT in Romania ?
Plus you won’t have any warranty
Minimum wage is irrelevant, what matters is the average wage, which in Romania is around the equivalent to 600EUR/Month.
Basically around the same Argentina was at in 1995.
New tech products always sell out though. Now that everyone has nothing to do it’s going to be even worse. Can’t even get mad at scalpers, the people giving them money are the ones to blame
Did peeps really pay a premium price to scalpers, just to buy these CPUs, and GPUs ?
Some do or there would not be any scalpers
Some do. I will give you an example. The MSRP for the 3080 is $700. I just happened to be on Ebay last month and saw an ad for 3080s available to ship immediately. The seller posted only 9 left. The price was $1,050 each. Within 2 hours he had sold all 9 of them.
Some sellers want even more. If you click the “sold” box you will see that some people are so desperate to get one that they will pay even more that $1,050.
These guys are really insane hardcore gaming freaks for sure, lol
But it was though.
For those prices I am amazed some numbskulls bought it.
Miners or scalpers
Good good! AMD needs to make money so the price hike is expected. Now we just see what Intel does next. AMD needs to be almost equal to Intel in the gaming marketshare before we really starts to see Performance / Price Wars. AMD just now caught up to Intel. But that does not say that Intel will not crush AMD at 7nm… I mean just look at what Intel is still doing on 14nm+++++++.
Could have easily bought a 5800X at MSRP. But fk i aint paying $100 for 10FPS more than an 10700k. AMD finally beats Intel and they get greedy. Ok.
Yup. AMD has surely jacked up their prices this time. But can we really blame them ?
Yeah cause AMD don’t like money… I mean they are only taking on two Giants in the CPU and GPU front.
So it was O.K. when Intel was greedy but not AMD?
Fanboy logic there.
I think this year has been the worst in the PC hardware industry. I mean the demand for gadgets, PC and console hardware and other stuff like Smartphones, laptops has skyrocketed, all thanks to this covid-19 pandemic.
Due to extremely high demand, its obvious for the stock to get empty. AMD is being honest here, since it was not any paper launch. I wonder how the RX 6000 GPU launch is going to pan out though ?
High demand = increased prices
The fact finances aren’t there due to COVID … that’s something else
Its been a mixed bag
Pro – Great new PC tech… really good perf increases in the gpu and cpu space
Con – Availability have been the downside due to the above thus more than usually want to upgrade. The pandemic sure don’t help as more peeps are at home and likely bored as hell so new entertainment system have had a boon in priority no doubt. So more peeps want a new system while more wants to upgrade their old during a time of less supply. Not hard to see the issues arise.
All in all – Still rather take the above than small yawn worthy upgrades and oversupply.
I tried to get a 5900X… was in my cart seemed like it was all good, but I got an error soon as PayPal finished its thing and it was sold out…
We should be trading in AMD chips instead of money.