AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Starts Selling at 30% Mark-up

[btarunr]

The unexpected parting-shot of Socket AM4 and "Zen 3" at Intel's new "Alder Lake" architecture, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, started selling. There is, however, a rude catch. On popular US retailer Newegg, the processor is going for as high as USD $589, or $140 higher than the $449 MSRP, a 30 percent mark-up. This would also put its price a vulgar $230 higher (64 percent higher) than the Ryzen 7 5800X, a price difference that can get you a reasonably good motherboard based on the AMD X570 chipset, or perhaps even a combination of a well-priced AMD B550 chipset motherboard and 16 GB of DDR4-3600 memory. It is important to note, however, though, that the Newegg listing is fulfilled by one of its marketplace vendors, and not Newegg directly. The site isn't selling the 5800X3D through its own fulfillment inventory.

The Ryzen 7 5800X3D thoroughly impressed us and several other tech reviewers. AMD stands good on its claim that the 5800X3D is faster than the Core i9-12900K at gaming, and it does end up trading blows with the i9-12900KS (an $800 chip) in several titles. The $589 marked-up price, however, erodes much of that goodwill, and for that kind of money, you're better off just getting a Core i9-12900 (non-K), and unshackling its power limits in the motherboard BIOS. The i9-12900 will trade blows with the 5800X3D at gaming, but will thoroughly outclass it at productivity. Both the i9-12900 and the 5800X3D are "locked."



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[Chomiq]

Sold by Amazon.de:

Mindfactory had it originally listed at €499 which seems to be the RRP for EU, they quickly updated it to €519.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Leave it to Newegg to set prices around the world. No surprise there, they are hacks.

 

[Makaveli]

Price in CAD.

And already sold out I see 3 left at this location.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Sold by Amazon.de:
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Mindfactory had it originally listed at €499 which seems to be the RRP for EU, they quickly updated it to €519.

amazon has it listed at $449 here in the US.

 

[cyberloner]

gosh

 

[wizyy]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VCJ2SHD

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Third party gouger nothing new about that at the egghead shack

Wonder how many prior amd series boards this chip will fit on and how many prior series boards will fit a 12900 still you'd wonder why someone would say 12900 is a better buy if they already had a amd board compatible with 5800x3d

 

[sillyconjunkie]

Straight-up price gouging at this point. I know what we need..

A letter (yes) campaign to the Attorney General demanding answers.

Sick of biased internet reporting. Is it demand, supply, demand dislocation (prob no), strategic hoarding?

My money is on hoarding at this point. Write a letter, buy a stamp, steal an envelope from work and write the Attorney General. State, Federal, both, whatever..

Who wants to come up w a letter template?

meh..

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Newegg had stock for a few hours this morning @ $449. They went out of stock for a while, and now they're back at $449.

The higher prices you're seeing are 3rd party. But who doesn't like click-bait, right?

What's with all these 'high quality' 'news' articles here lately?

 

[Durvelle27]

Fake news

 

[zlobby]

So, the hardcore gaming crowd really cares about productivity performance? Gimme a break!

Also, how does markup differ from profit margin? Asking for the commonfolk here.

 

[trsttte]

Also, how does markup differ from profit margin? Asking for the commonfolk here.

Profit margin is already built into the original price, markup is an extra margin on top after sellers realizes that there are more than enough suckers willing to pay extra

People are free to spend their money however they want, but in this specific case I think whoever overpays for this cpu is just a sucker when you can get ~95% the performance or depending on the application/game even upwards of 105% or 110% (due to higher base clocks) with a 5800x or 5700x that are readily available for much less

 

[Colddecked]

Profit margin is already built into the original price, markup is an extra margin on top after sellers realizes that there are more than enough suckers willing to pay extra

People are free to spend their money however they want, but in this specific case I think whoever overpays for this cpu is just a sucker when you can get ~95% the performance or depending on the application/game even upwards of 105% or 110% (due to higher base clocks) with a 5800x or 5700x that are readily available for much less

5800x3d ain't for everyone, everyone knows this by now. But if your game isn't GPU bound, you're going to get a nice boost in avg fps and 1% lows with the 3D over the regular 5700/5800xs.

This is scalpers trying to profit off the no patience crowd.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Shop scalping, aww hell no, vote with your wallet.

Salute those who won't and those who scalp, and I obviously mean a typical civilian manc/UK salute involving just your two main digits, V.

 

[applejuice]

What is this baiting FUD garbage? It's available from multiple retailers (including newegg) for msrp right now, why are you pretending that third-parties trying to scalp represents anything other than third-parties trying to scalp? "ItS NoT As gUD ValUe nOw! GiT 12900 InSteAD!" This has Intel-shilling written all over it.

 

[SL2]

Can someone fix this unintentional clickbait before all the pitchforks start piling up?

 

[neatfeatguy]

Micro Center is selling them at MSRP, but they are in store only sales. My Twin Cities location currently reports having 18 in stock as of the time of this posting:

 

[Dragokar]

The same in Europe/Germany, available at UVP/MSRP or even below.

 

[SL2]

I don't feel like defending newegg, but I don't think they're responsible for in store stores, or wtf they're called..

 

[freeagent]

It’s 600 bucks here plus 14% tax..

No thanks.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

$449 at my local Microcenter, 22 currently available. Can’t reserve them online, but I imagine that’s just a temporary measure before they let you do that too. Oh, and take $20 off a compatible motherboard purchase while you’re at it!

 

[the54thvoid]

£409 at OCUK pre-order.

Edit: and yeah, to be fair, the OP is a bit baity.

 

[defaultluser]

There will always be occasions of Out-of-stock on launch day.

But I expected there to be pretty good availability most-places for such an ancient core (and it's in-stock most places)

 

[ShiBDiB]

Meh... An article summed this release up best

Users with existing AM4 builds should wait just a few more months for Zen4 / Raptor Lake rather than wasting money on an end-of-life platform.