Monday, October 17th 2022
AMD Cuts Down Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" Production As Demand Drops Like a Rock
AMD reportedly scaled down production of its Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors in response to bleak demand across the PC hardware industry. Wccftech claims to have read an internal company document calling for reduced supply to the channel as market response to the Ryzen 7000-series is weak. This comes hot on the heels of AMD revising its Q3-2022 forecast, trimming its guidance by a $1 billion drop in revenue, citing weak demand in the PC market. However, we are seeing no deviation from the launch pricing for Ryzen 7000-series SKUs or compatible Socket AM5 motherboards. The platform went on sale from late September, on the same day that Intel announced its competing 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors. The new Intel chips are expected to start selling from a little later this month.
Unlike 13th Gen Core processors, Ryzen 7000 series processors appear to be a victim of the platform—notwithstanding the high pricing of the processors, which start at $299 for the 6-core 7600X, buyers lack access to affordable motherboards, and have to contend with expensive DDR5 memory. Pricing of cheaper LGA1700 motherboards based on entry-level H610 and B660 chipsets with cost-effective DDR4 memory support have added depth to consumer choice, besides Intel's 12th Gen range starting from under $150.
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Wccftech
Unlike 13th Gen Core processors, Ryzen 7000 series processors appear to be a victim of the platform—notwithstanding the high pricing of the processors, which start at $299 for the 6-core 7600X, buyers lack access to affordable motherboards, and have to contend with expensive DDR5 memory. Pricing of cheaper LGA1700 motherboards based on entry-level H610 and B660 chipsets with cost-effective DDR4 memory support have added depth to consumer choice, besides Intel's 12th Gen range starting from under $150.
242 Comments on AMD Cuts Down Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" Production As Demand Drops Like a Rock
btw i´ve an AM5 since some time now ... it´s a Sharkoon Case. :kookoo:
All that bling bling adds a lot of cost in the end.
The operating temperature is really a concern, operating at 95 Degrees.
Electronics that run that hot always usually won't last very long.
The higher end R9 TDP is at 170watt which remind me of the AMD FX-9590 with 220 watt TDP.
Air cooling isn't recommend so have to use liquid cooling for optimum performance which add
more cost to the PC.
So those who want to build PC either Intel 12th or AMD AM4 platform will be decent enough.
For AMD Ryzen 7000 unfortunately it's best targeted at workstation pc than a gaming PC
in my opinion.
Workstation hardware usually are very hot and power hungry and AMD Ryzen 7000 fits the bill.If anyone wants to build a cheap PC, go for AMD AM4 with A520 motherboard instead.
Even if there is A620, generally these motherboard are bad.
The power delivery of the motherboard consist of cheap components so even if it can work.
Not only the CPU can throttle heavily and such motherboard won't last very long.
Cheap motherboard with cheap processor usually is best for day to day use.
Gaming wise is best to invest in a decent motherboard with decent power delivery system
for optimal stability and reliability.
The 4090 is going to be the only card to really see a performance leap over the 3000 series. The 4080 and below are so cut down spec wise that the performance jumps at the price they’re set to be released at are going to be non existent; ray tracing still has no significant, supported games and actual uses within the game engines remain limited.
The only time I hear about ray tracing is when someone talks about a tech demo, or in product reviews. None of my friends, family, or gaming community members mention it. They’re all playing older games, mainstream games where raw fps outweighs turning on fancy lighting, or games that simply don’t have any ray tracing implementations.
On topic:
The 7600X and 7700X are poor value. The motherboard pricing isn’t what’s stopping me personally. Being aware that the 13600k and 13700k are going to target that price range, Intel was smart to give just enough info on those two Skus that they basically made the 7600X and 7700X DOA.
The 7000 series CPU are a great step forward in terms of raw/traditional performance upgrades (way more than intels tick tock nonsense ever was), but AMD seems to have decided against any increase to stepping up the value proposition in terms of additional cores/threads to their product stack.
Don't think we'll see a single AM5 board below 125€ for quite some time, if ever (unless used, ofc).
amd has the ability unlike nvidia, to allocate more tsmc time by cutting its cpu division