Tuesday, August 13th 2024
Mindfactory Only Sold a Few Dozen AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X
German PC components online retailer Mindfactory is no Amazon, but is meticulously transparent with its sales data to the public, which allows us to gauge consumer interest in products, at least in the European context. AMD last week launched its Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Socket AM5 desktop processors powered by the latest "Zen 5" microarchitecture, which were met with mixed reviews, with the tech press remarking on very little IPC gain over the previous "Zen 4" generation, which is salvaged somewhat with their better energy efficiency. It's been 5 days since market availability for these two chips, and they aren't exactly flying off the shelves over at Mindfactory.
Remember what we said about Mindfactory being transparent with its sales numbers? The retailer even puts out a counter of how many units of a product it sold, and how many page views a product's store page got. As of this writing (13/8, 15:00 UTC), Mindfactory sold just between 20-30 Ryzen 5 9600X processors, with just under 600 page views for the product. The Ryzen 7 9700X is very slightly better, but not by much—just 30-40 pieces sold, and under 1,200 page views. To give you some context, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which has been out since April 2023, sold close to 68,000 units on this store. HardwareTimes reports that the 9700X is #39 most popular processor on Amazon in August 2024, and #45 on Newegg. We guess what's happening here is a combination of consumers waiting to see how the 9900X and 9700X perform, what the 9000X3D series and Intel's next-generation bring to the table, and favoring previous-gen incumbents such as the 7800X3D, i9-14900K, etc., which have had price cuts over the past several months.
Sources:
Mindfactory listing for 9600X, Mindfactory listing for 9700X, HardwareTimes
Remember what we said about Mindfactory being transparent with its sales numbers? The retailer even puts out a counter of how many units of a product it sold, and how many page views a product's store page got. As of this writing (13/8, 15:00 UTC), Mindfactory sold just between 20-30 Ryzen 5 9600X processors, with just under 600 page views for the product. The Ryzen 7 9700X is very slightly better, but not by much—just 30-40 pieces sold, and under 1,200 page views. To give you some context, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which has been out since April 2023, sold close to 68,000 units on this store. HardwareTimes reports that the 9700X is #39 most popular processor on Amazon in August 2024, and #45 on Newegg. We guess what's happening here is a combination of consumers waiting to see how the 9900X and 9700X perform, what the 9000X3D series and Intel's next-generation bring to the table, and favoring previous-gen incumbents such as the 7800X3D, i9-14900K, etc., which have had price cuts over the past several months.
62 Comments on Mindfactory Only Sold a Few Dozen AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X
So again, do people think about what they're reading, really?
Why would you buy or wait for this being 'within 2%' to begin with?
This whole release feels to me like a storm in teacup affair, both from the end of AMD making too much noise about it, as well as the consumer base (correction: internet media hype circus) making too much noise about it.
Much ado about nothing is the gist of all this. I didn't wait buying a 7800X3D for these reviews... bought it a week prior to any numbers. Zen 5 was barely even on my radar honestly... It was painfully obvious this CPU was a pointless release. A refinement, at best, which, frankly, it also is. It uses less power and has somewhat better features while offering samey perf as before. Let's move on :DThat is true nonetheless.Hmmm GCN>RDNA1... somethingsomething ring a bell :D 'Its totally new'...
'Except it doesn't matter much'
RDNA2>3... Look at all the changes... :p
If they follow that cadence, 10000 series is going to be awesome again. It has to be, since its clearly over 9000 now.
I had a very loud MSI Radeon 6800 Z Trio. I was forced to sell it because of bad software and hardware behaviour in windows 11 pro and gnu gentoo linux. Always on rainbow led which wastes energy per hour. Unbearable Fan noise according to windows 11 pro driver at 40% or higher pwm value for the gpu fans.
The Powercolor 7800XT Hellhound is much quieter. The 7800XT does not have the gnu gentoo linux and windows 11 pro high power consumption bug. I do not need to manually change configuration files to get a lower idle power consumption in both operating systems. I was well aware off that the 7800XT is worse as the Radeon 6800XT. I think the 7800XT has a better power consumption. I paid 50€ premium and I had to wait to get the card. There is no really hardware support in gnu gentoo linux. Impossible to change any fan values or anything else last time i tried last winter. the linux drivers are not really well maintained. They work but that's it. I do expect some control over the fans and ways to downclock the core and memory officially from amd. Which does not exists.
If you want your Windows to work fine, you need to click more than one tick :)
You give example with someone that go to AMD>Intel>AMD just for click biting? Cool :)
Since the new motherboards won't arrive until September, sales are likely to stagnate until then...
If they had released a Ryzen 9 9950X in AM4 format for X570 motherboards and others, I would have gladly upgraded, but since they still don't offer anything better than my 5950x CPU for my X570 motherboard, I'm not ready to renew my CPU... ;-(
If no one is playing it on Steam, it is no longer in reviews.
Deus Ex Mankind Divided is 8 years old, it's irrelevant game to all reviewers.
There are two titles on there that use mGPU those are Deus Ex Mankind Divided & Strange Brigade.
It shows a worrying trend in direction - the same trend that Intel was following post coffee lake and throughout their spectacular collapse.
it almost feels like they hired all the marketing people Intel laid off.
I buy from scan.co.uk, cclonline.com, ebuyer.com, box.co.uk (don't exist anymore) and pcworld/curry(probably will see those processors in half a year). I don't use amazon