AMD was originally planning to release its Ryzen 9000 series CPUs on July 31st. However, at the last minute, the red team has decided to delay their launch until August 15th. As AMD noted, this delay is because the first batch of these CPUs did not meet its quality expectations.
As AMD noted in its PR statement:
“We appreciate the excitement around Ryzen 9000 series processors. During final checks, we found the initial production units that were shipped to our channel partners did not meet our full quality expectations. Out of an abundance of caution and to maintain the highest quality experiences for every Ryzen user, we are working with our channel partners to replace the initial production units with fresh units.
As a result, there will be a short delay in retail availability. The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors will now go on sale on August 8th and the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X processors will go on sale on August 15th. We pride ourselves in providing a high-quality experience for every Ryzen user, and we look forward to our fans having a great experience with the new Ryzen 9000 series.”
It’s obvious that AMD is doing its best to avoid any missteps, especially now that Intel has sh*t its bed. Since we’re talking about a two-week delay, this is the right call.
This also highlights one of the biggest issues with PC hardware. The first batch of CPUs, motherboards, GPUs and RAM may often have some faults. For instance, the first batch of the X670E Aorus Master motherboards has issues with the bottom M.2 PCIe SSD slots. Later versions of this MB do not suffer from it. Moreover, the first batch of some older GPUs had temperature issues and weak overclocking capabilities. Similarly, the first batch of older CPUs could not be overclocked as much as their later versions.
A couple of days ago, we also shared the first third-party gaming benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X. In the ten games that were benchmarked, the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X was slightly slower (in the majority of them) than the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
Stay tuned for more!
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Better this than walk into the issues that intel are having I guess. Right before the Launch is kinda crazy though like what really could it have been?
the cult is always ready to defend every AMD move, be it good or bad
yeah those people are wild lol
Fair Play
The above is practically true for any mildly complex device nowadays.
I can give you an example from first-hand experience:
Ever since the launch of the original Steam Deck LCD version in Spring 2022, it shipped with a completely broken feature within AMD's closed-source BIOS/Firmware called CPPC (Collaborative Processor Performance Control), which is absolutely needed in order to load the proper AMD CPU driver on Linux, otherwise you only have access to really rudimentary power-management on a modern AMD processor.
Even though this was corrected for the Steam Deck OLED models by AMD, Valve nevertheless decided to ship the OLED version with the same rudimentary power-management feature of the LCD models, in order to provide a similar experience for all Steam Deck owners.
Finally, just a few months ago, AMD was able to rectify this problem within their own firmware for the Steam Deck LCD model and ship a correctly functioning implementation of CPPC to Valve.
Which means that future versions of SteamOS (but not the imminent 3.6 revision) will be able to provide substantially better power-management for all Steam Deck owners, on top of all the other system-wide improvements which are still being worked on…
The fact AMD refuses to explain what the issue actually is, means I am staying far away from these chips.
Today's chips from AMD and Intel are no longer reliable. As we approach the limits of miniaturisation, CPU experience more and more leakage current and more and more chips start to malfunction and they increasingly corrupt data.
There is a reason power plants, cars, and critical embedded systems refuse to use AMD and Intel chips, but use 28nm chips from Bosch, STMicro, NXP and Infineon instead.
Google and Facebook engineers warned in 2021 that newer chips from AMD and Intel were becoming very unreliable, silently corrupting data. Because Google and Facebook have giant data centers, they can keep track of data corruption.
Stores already have stock. Is it being recalled?
It is, per Gamers Nexus.
What a dumpster fire.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Perfectly fine as long as they don't fvck up consumers!
Though, honestly, being just 2 weeks it makes me uncomfortable as in "guys, are you sure it is fixed? Is it fixed well enough??" I have my doubts, we'll see, but i wouldn't be surprised if quite a few still faulty units start showing up and making the news…
its clear we are hitting the end of cpu and gup performance increases.
Good on them, but this is clearly AMD taking advantage of Intel stupidity and marketing off of it. Wouldn't be surprised if that's the major reason for the "delay."
I won't touch any AMD or Intel CPUs on the first 6 months of their launch
This CPUs/ Motherboards are getting unreliable as of late
my immeasurable is disappointed and my ruined is lit.
AMD on cruise control, Intel is on fire and driving off a cliff
What a fail.