Saturday, May 20th 2023
AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D Selling Nearly Twice as Fast as 5800X3D in Some Regions
AMD's cheapest Zen 4 X3D processor is shaping up to be its most popular. Sales numbers from Germany's Mindfactory posted by TechEpiphany seemingly shows the recently launched Ryzen 7 7800X3D outselling last year's Ryzen 7 5800X3D nearly 2:1, with 4,720 7800X3Ds selling to the 5800X3D's 2,510 over a few week period. While these figures show sales for only a single region, evidence for this momentum is reflected in other regional retailers as well as some global outlets. On Amazon, for example, the 7800X3D has made a frequent appearance on the top 10 best selling CPUs list, with the rest of the Zen 4 lineup trailing well behind. Newegg reports the 7800X3D to be among the top 5 best selling CPUs on the site at time of writing. Microcenter also shows the 7800X3D and 5800X3D side-by-side in seventh and eighth places respectively for popularity.
Despite recent troubles with the AM5 platform and Zen 4 X3D processors, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is proving to be quite a success for AMD. The 7800X3D in our review was shown to be one of the most efficient processors we've ever tested, and offered gaming performance at or near the top of the charts across the gauntlet of games and resolutions thrown at it. The staggered release of the 7000X3D lineup, with the 7950X3D and 7900X3D launching first and the 7800X3D launching later, gave early signals that AMD knew what they had and wanted to push as many early adopters away from the better value chip as they could. Pricing for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has been steady since it released, however we've already seen retailers offering discounts on the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D, as they presumably struggle to sell as well as the more aggressively positioned 7800X3D.
Sources:
TechEpiphany, Wccftech
Despite recent troubles with the AM5 platform and Zen 4 X3D processors, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is proving to be quite a success for AMD. The 7800X3D in our review was shown to be one of the most efficient processors we've ever tested, and offered gaming performance at or near the top of the charts across the gauntlet of games and resolutions thrown at it. The staggered release of the 7000X3D lineup, with the 7950X3D and 7900X3D launching first and the 7800X3D launching later, gave early signals that AMD knew what they had and wanted to push as many early adopters away from the better value chip as they could. Pricing for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has been steady since it released, however we've already seen retailers offering discounts on the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D, as they presumably struggle to sell as well as the more aggressively positioned 7800X3D.
88 Comments on AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D Selling Nearly Twice as Fast as 5800X3D in Some Regions
My reason to state "hopefully the AGESA team gets it together" is reflecting my own poor experience with socket AM4. Horrorshow as far as AGESA went. So many high severity bugs late into the socket's lifetime, at least they got mostly everything (except the EDC bug) fixed, so it should be 99% good (and 100% good if you have the 5800X3D) at this point.I've watched GN's video mate. ASUS may have been putting more voltage in than everyone else, but they were far from the only motherboard vendor that had a CPU blow up on them. They are owning up to their mistakes and ensuring warranties are honored, so ultimately that is what matters.
My only dig at AMD here is that they have to review this habit they have of releasing unproven software to the public. They have an excellent community of dedicated fans willing to beta test for them, so honestly, they need to push stable far behind and introduce more layers of stability, "rings" like Microsoft does.
Apparently very very few people had their CPU's get killed but that is enough to taint the whole AM5 platform going by other's comments.
IMO its a dumb but overall minor mistake that is getting or has been fixed by a BIOS update. Intel's FDIV bug was probably a bigger deal then this is.Early AM4 BIOS'es were a mess but around the 2000 series Ryzens its been pretty solid for most people.
I've built lots of AM4 systems for family and work since then and they've been boring and reliable. Just the way I like a family or work PC to be.
You get what you deserve.
Publishers couldn't give two shits about that however, and they sign the paycheck.
I got the 13700k based on 7000X data and AM5 platform cost (somehow missed the 7000X3D data), although I am happy with my upgrade, I think I "may" (not sure) have paid the AM5 premium for a 7800X3D as truly a beast for gaming.
13700K is also a beast of course for gaming, just a smaller one.
I'm a mess with upgrades. 12600K, then 5800X3D (skipped 13th Gen) and since launch thinking about the 7800X3D but i have to admit lost momentum from launch prices. I guess the 9700K is getting the job done and i'm not really trying any newer titles which beg for something snappier or more resourceful with a multi-threaded palette
I finally upgraded my 4670k after i saw the am5 motherboards.
I bought $125 mb which will run pcie5 nvme drives and GPU in a pcie 4x16 mode. I guess you paid $250 for a mb that can only run pcie5 nvme in an adapter if you put your gpu in a pcie4x4 slot?