AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D to be Exclusive Micro Center Product in the US

[LabRat 891]

Planned, viable, completed AND intentionally unreleased, with GN's recent AMD lab tour finally exposing the truth on these hunches that we've always had. A 5950X3D with the full 192 MB L3 was planned, designed, completed and never shipped, obviously due to concerns about it being predatory to their own EPYC business. It was demoed in GN's video:

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.

IMO:
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.

 

[R-T-B]

Why not? The V-cache is proven to produce massive performance uplift in most games.

Ah yes, I misread the 5800x as a 5800x3d, my bad.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Not saying the 5600X3D isn't selling well, we don't know how many were actually released to Micro Center nor do we know how many they may have already know. I do know, however, that my location still shows 25+ in stock.

Had I not had to take my dog to the vet this morning after she hurt her leg the other day and has still be avoiding putting much weight on it and spending about $250 there, I'd be stopping by MC tomorrow to get one of these....maybe they'll be around in stock for a bit and I can still get one later.

 

[LabRat 891]

Not saying the 5600X3D isn't selling well, we don't know how many were actually released to Micro Center nor do we know how many they may have already know. I do know, however, that my location still shows 25+ in stock.

If you look through the stores available for pickup, it seems they're all decently stocked. Also, they're already going for $319+ on eBay, and the 5800X3D has coincidentally gone back up in price (>$319 most places).

 

[PixelButts]

I managed to get the 5600X3D myself (and to everyone I met there, was nice chatting!)
Anyone else?

Turnout of people was somewhat lacking, but as the day progressed more people showed up. They definitely didn't have much of this stock wise according to the reps I spoke to, so I expect this to sell out a lot faster than 3-6 months.

 

[Kapone33]

Right now in Canada the 5800X3D is on sale for $349 that is like $262 US.