Even though AMD has not explicitly sampled the new old Ryzen CPUs with Zen3 core, many of the new CPUs have already reached retailers. The top model, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 4.5 GHz, 4 MiB L2 cache, 96 MiB L3 cache) should become available in rather homeopathic doses with an MSRP of about 450 dollars. Our own inquiry to several distributors and system integrators resulted in an order quantity between 10 and 50 pieces without a firm promise of a second delivery. Whether this model with V-Cache will ever achieve real market penetration unfortunately remains open for now. Especially since the next generation is supposed to be ready in the fall.
The Ryzen 5 5600 (6 cores, 12 threads, up to 4.4 GHz, 3 MiB L2 cache, 32 MiB L3 cache) is a born cannibal at just under 208 Euros, but only in its own ranks. Intel’s Core i5-12400F can be bought for about 173 Euros (~$173) and in the end you get a similar and usually slightly faster product for much less money. However, the Ryzen 5 5600X, which costs around 223 Euros, becomes completely obsolete because it can hardly beat the Ryzen 5 5600 significantly in terms of performance, but it costs a bit more than the version without the X.
The other CPUs are of course also interesting, whereby the Ryzen R3 4100 in particular should have a hard time against the Intel Core i3-12100, which is available from about 110 Euros. The Ryzen 3 is supposed to cost around 100 Euros (including VAT) and more when purchased, so there is not much of a margin left for retailers to really compete on price. The sum of CPU, motherboard and peripherals will have to be used to fairly decide which platform is more favorable.
The other CPUs, such as the Ryzen R5 4500 and R5 5500, also group themselves somewhat helplessly between the Intel CPUs in terms of price without really offering any financial incentive. Yes, they are by now exactly what you would have wanted to see from the customer’s point of view for quite some time, but they are simply too late. Apart from that, Intel’s aggressive pricing policy also seems to be a tough nut to crack for AMD. The Ryzen 7 5700X (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 4.6 GHz, 4 MiB L2 cache, 32 MiB L3 cache) competes with the Ryzen 7 5800X and will probably cannibalize it in the end because it is cheaper and yet hardly slower.
From the buyer’s point of view, it is a shame that AMD waited so long with the intermediate models – unfortunately, an opportunity was grandiosely missed here. As a direct counter to Intel’s launch of the 12th generation, it is a good choice. In the second generation, this move would certainly have been more effective, but this way, we move from the position of the driver to that of the driven without any need. Too bad actually.
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