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AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

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Re: AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

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What sales, they hardly had any stock available. I've been trying since the release to get my hands on a Ryzen 5900x and they're sold out everywhere. I'm trying to get on a waiting list for it now, fingers crossed that they can deliver before the new year.

Right now there is nothing available CPU or GPU wise.

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Unfortunately, even if there was, they wouldn't have Thunderbolt so it would limit the external display options. Hopefully when USB4 starts rolling out it'll be a different story.

There is nothing stopping manufactures from including Thunderbolt.

Well, nothing besides a bunch of R&D since AMD doesn't provide any reference design with Thunderbolt.

Re: AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

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What sales, they hardly had any stock available. I've been trying since the release to get my hands on a Ryzen 5900x and they're sold out everywhere. I'm trying to get on a waiting list for it now, fingers crossed that they can deliver before the new year.

Where are you signing up? Micro Center won't do stock alerts or waiting lists.

Re: AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

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post #3

What sales, they hardly had any stock available. I've been trying since the release to get my hands on a Ryzen 5900x and they're sold out everywhere. I'm trying to get on a waiting list for it now, fingers crossed that they can deliver before the new year.

This is "no one drives in New York, there's too much traffic" levels of logic.

Not really. There is an infinite available of cars that may be driven into NY. There is only a finite number of CPUs available. I have money and want a CPU but cannot get one. I doubt there is anyone in NY who cannot find a car for sale.

Re: AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

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Or low supply. The RTX 3080 is impossible to find, but not because they have high sales. They just haven't made very many of them.

Check out the November Steam results. The RTX 3080 is already at 0.23%. After just 1 month. If you don’t think that’s impressive, compare it against some AMD GPUs like the 5700 or the 5600 XT, which has the same share. There’s a reason Nvidia’s quarterly gaming results where a blowout. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

One of the several Danish retailers publishes their waiting list data: https://www.proshop.dk/RTX-30series-overview which are impressive -- just that one retailer received 3500 cards, 4300 clients have bought and not received them and they have ordered 24000 cards into their shop for future sales. And out of the 24,000 ordered, they only have confirmation for 860.

This is large retailer, but once of a dozen in Denmark.

Re: AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

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What sales, they hardly had any stock available. I've been trying since the release to get my hands on a Ryzen 5900x and they're sold out everywhere. I'm trying to get on a waiting list for it now, fingers crossed that they can deliver before the new year.

This is "no one drives in New York, there's too much traffic" levels of logic.

To be fair the traffic is jammed. The traffic surge happened a while back. I guess these are "presales". Our economy is getting jitted, wonder how that will end up working.

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It's quite frustrating that this is becoming the norm, whether it be the 3XXX Nvidia cards, Playstation 5s, Ryzen CPUs, why is it that no hardware company can keep up with demand these days?

Scalpers aren't helping. I'd be super curious how many they've gotten vs normal customers.

Scalpers don't keep them. They redistribute them to normal customers.

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It's quite frustrating that this is becoming the norm, whether it be the 3XXX Nvidia cards, Playstation 5s, Ryzen CPUs, why is it that no hardware company can keep up with demand these days?

What ever happened to the laws of supply and demand? If the demand is high, and the supply is limited, they should be raising their prices. Stockx says an xbox series X is worth $750, a PS5 is worth $950, and a Ryzen 5900X worth $800. Why can't vendors just raise their prices, so I can buy from a retail outlet I trust, rather than a scalper.

I was in front of a 3060 ti, I could afford it but it was frigging $730 CAD and there is no way I am forking that amount of money to play video games.

Re: AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

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Good problem to have from the perspective of AMD shareholders.

Both Sony and Microsoft were on a PowerPC base for the PS3/Xbox360 generation. Sony was on a MIPS before that. While there's definitely value in knowing you basically own the console market for the next few years, consoles have a much easier time jumping ship on architectures than PCs do, so having such a large portion of your revenue tied to two customers, both of whom are capable of jumping ship quite easily on the…

You're saying AMD "only" won the "short-term" console market for 2013-2027 (so far) but instead they should... what? Focus on a 20-30 year time horizon? There's no such thing in the chip industry.
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