AMD Set to Extend AM4 Platform with New Ryzen 5 5600XT and 5600T Processors

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This forum isn't actually representative of most computer users.

There is still a market for AM4. I know I am not moving any time soon. I just purchased another x570 board (WS-x570-ACE), it has the features I am looking for (slot bifurication), which I can't find on either x670E or x870E.

Then there is the whole price of a platform jump - in my case, it is nearly $1,000. A 20% increase in performance isn't worth that to me.

Indeed. Zen 3 and AM4 boards (mostly 5 series) are still killing it in retail sales here in the U.S. That said; These new SKUs are rather pointless, and will collect dust at the present pricing.

AM4 isn't going anywhere because it's easy money. From the Anandtech (RIP) article on the 5700X3D launch -

Despite being based around the previous Zen 3 microarchitecture, the AM4 desktop platform is still thriving. With new processors to take advantage of the cheaper AM4 boards and DDR4 memory, AMD is looking to leverage the low production costs of their existing (and well amortized) silicon to offer better chips across all budgets.

May as well keep churning out new SKUs to keep it in the news cycle?

I don't see the reason for any negativity about this announcement. Aside from Windows 11 showing first-gen Ryzen the door prematurely, AM4 remains a pretty solid platform. I'm still running a board from 2017, it's still receiving BIOS updates, and I'm feeling no pressing need whatsoever to retire it. And, I like that the pool of possible processors I could use has grown as large as it has. Life is good.

Right on.