AMD was originally planning to release its Ryzen 9000 series CPUs on July 31st. However, at the last minute, the red team has decided to delay their launch until August 15th. As AMD noted, this delay is because the first batch of these CPUs did not meet its quality expectations.
As AMD noted in its PR statement:
“We appreciate the excitement around Ryzen 9000 series processors. During final checks, we found the initial production units that were shipped to our channel partners did not meet our full quality expectations. Out of an abundance of caution and to maintain the highest quality experiences for every Ryzen user, we are working with our channel partners to replace the initial production units with fresh units.
As a result, there will be a short delay in retail availability. The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors will now go on sale on August 8th and the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X processors will go on sale on August 15th. We pride ourselves in providing a high-quality experience for every Ryzen user, and we look forward to our fans having a great experience with the new Ryzen 9000 series.”
It’s obvious that AMD is doing its best to avoid any missteps, especially now that Intel has sh*t its bed. Since we’re talking about a two-week delay, this is the right call.
This also highlights one of the biggest issues with PC hardware. The first batch of CPUs, motherboards, GPUs and RAM may often have some faults. For instance, the first batch of the X670E Aorus Master motherboards has issues with the bottom M.2 PCIe SSD slots. Later versions of this MB do not suffer from it. Moreover, the first batch of some older GPUs had temperature issues and weak overclocking capabilities. Similarly, the first batch of older CPUs could not be overclocked as much as their later versions.
A couple of days ago, we also shared the first third-party gaming benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X. In the ten games that were benchmarked, the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X was slightly slower (in the majority of them) than the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
Stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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