Friday, June 30th 2023
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D to be Exclusive Micro Center Product in the US
US Computer component retailer Micro Center has announced that the store has struck an exclusive deal with AMD to be the sole retailer for the Ryzen 5 5600X3D processor. The CPU is apparently a limited edition release, although it's not clear how limited it'll be in terms of available quantities. The new CPU will launch on the 7th of July and has a base clock of 3.3 GHz and a boost clock of 4.4 GHz, each 100 MHz slower than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The CPU obviously has six CPU cores, which results in a total cache of 99 MB due to the missing two cores.
The TDP remains at 105 W and it appears that the Ryzen 5 5600X3D might just consist of failed Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips sold with two cores disabled. From what TPU understands, there should be some OEM availability of the Ryzen 5 5600X3D as well, based on what our sources have told us, but we don't have any details on which system integrators might be offering the CPU. Micro Center will be charging US$229.99, which is US$220 less than what the Ryzen 7 5800X3D launched at, although Micro Center is currently selling it at US$279.99. The Ryzen 5 5600X3D will also be offered at a discounted price when bought with eligible motherboard and memory bundles from Micro Center.
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The TDP remains at 105 W and it appears that the Ryzen 5 5600X3D might just consist of failed Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips sold with two cores disabled. From what TPU understands, there should be some OEM availability of the Ryzen 5 5600X3D as well, based on what our sources have told us, but we don't have any details on which system integrators might be offering the CPU. Micro Center will be charging US$229.99, which is US$220 less than what the Ryzen 7 5800X3D launched at, although Micro Center is currently selling it at US$279.99. The Ryzen 5 5600X3D will also be offered at a discounted price when bought with eligible motherboard and memory bundles from Micro Center.
80 Comments on AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D to be Exclusive Micro Center Product in the US
Gotta clear out those failed 5800X3Ds though
The whole thing about Ryzen was that it maximized use of the reject bin. Ryzen focused on bins for performance, while EPYC focused on bins for efficiency (TR used to pull from the Ryzen stock, but now pulls from the EPYC stock with their Prosumer focus and complete shift away from part-time gaming). Both recycled their rejects down the line, and even the worst of them with 2 functional cores and no SMT were utilized in Athlon budget CPUs.
That's why Micro Center have got an exclusive on it - it's a limited edition product that will come and go within a very short time period. The alternative was just throwing the dies in the trash, so I'm not sure what all the complaining is about. People apparently just don't like anybody else getting something if they can't have it too, and would rather nobody got anything.
R5 3600->R5 5600, RX580X->6500XT->16GB Vega+6500XT, RAID0 Gen3 NVME->quad non-RAID Gen4 NVMe. Heck, I don't think there's an AM5 board with the expandability X570 offered! -at least not at a similar price-point.
If I (still) lived near-ish a MicroCenter, I'd be grabbing one of these and a 'spare' X570 board. I certainly had hoped this wasn't a limited/exclusive 'run'. Especially, since AMD had (more/less) promised more X3D on AM4 than just the 5800X3D...
These 5600X3Ds will probably end up a Curio/Relic for enthusiast-collectors.
Me, I'll probably just end up w/ a 5800X3D on their final price drop before being retired from retail-channel sales (guessing, Holidays 2023?)
I was wondering if anyone knows off hand if the X3D parts benefit emulation such as PS2 or PS3 emulation?
With Zen 4 however, it does improve performance over non X3D parts noticeably in certain games depending on the bottleneck. The 7950X3D/7800X3D are among the fastest CPUs you can buy for that emulator right now, beating their 13th gen Intel counterparts in those games. The true undefeated champs are the 12900K/12700K with AVX 512 though.
Link to the rpcs3 CPU tier list - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rpq_2D4Rf3g6O-x2R1fwTSKWvJH7X63kExsVxHnT2Mc/edit#gid=1013362381
According to MicroCenter's product page for the 5600X3D, it will become availible for sale on the 7th.Kinda lame, but this absolutely would prevent any 'scale' cannibalization of other product/platform sales.
Part of me can't help but be cynical, myself:
I don't believe AMD.
I think 5600X3D, 5900X3D, and 5950X3D were all planned and viable SKUs, but production ended up 'behind' and too close to AM5's release.
IMO, AMD 'truncated' the AM4 X3D lineup @ the 5800X3D to keep the attention on AM5.
In years to come, we'll (hopefully) find out the truth.
EDIT: ignore this, misread "5800x" as "5800x3d" like a dummy.
Assuming it's just a defective 5800x3D, stock must be very limited, hence the exclusivity.
It easily could be AMD mitigating and managing the release to not distract from new-platform sales, while also 'gauging demand' and liquidating defective 5800X3Ds.
I have no hope for more AM4 releases (beyond embed/industrial), but AMD may factor-in the 'response' to this release as part of their strategy in AM5.
IMO: Being able to 'stir-up sales, on-demand' towards the end of a platform's life, would be 'a
neatprofitable trick to have in one's back pocket'.They simply opted not to sell them (lame excuse citing no gaming performance uplift over 5800X3D - yeah then, why release anything above the 5800X), and the same goes for the Zen 3 Threadripper 5990X "Chagall", replacement for the 3990X with 64 cores and all that. Their unwillingness to release the latter condemned the entire viability of the TRX40 platform which went belly up remarkably fast and now the company and everyone else pretend that it doesn't exist, with the cope that "the target market doesn't care and Zen 2 is enough for them" immediately slapped as the flex tape fix.
They couldn't capitalize on those in the modern multimedia marketing landscape (like social media and reviewer-influencers). I hate it, but I find a lot of these things can be explained by anti-consumer marketing stratagem having been reliably-proven profitable. -and, usually later-evidenced through changes in presentations, or outright veiled admissions in investor documentation and marketing/investing press releases.
Basically, everyone at the table is min-maxing their characters, ruining the game.