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German retailer sold about 10k Ryzen 5000 series CPUs in December
The German retailer mindfactory.de publishes the amounts of various parts that they sold, which can give us some idea of how many parts are showing up. Here's WCCFtech's write-up on their December CPU numbers:
https://wccftech.com/amds-ryzen-5000-ryzen-3000zen-3-zen-2-desktop-cpus-demolish-all-sales-records/
What's interesting to me is that, while there is still a shortage of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs, quite a lot of them are showing up at retail--and then immediately selling out. One retailer in Germany sold just shy of 10k of the CPUs in one month, all by themselves. For comparison, they sold more Ryzen 5000 series CPUs that month than they did of all Intel CPUs combined. So this is hardly a paper launch, nor even all that soft of a launch. It actually is what vendors usually claim when they do a soft launch: incredibly high demand.
Retailers that sell individual CPUs cater to the enthusiast market, of course, which is only a small subset of all desktop CPUs. But this would point toward the number of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs shipped so far at least being well into the hundreds of thousands, and possibly in the millions. This is nothing like the Radeon RX 6000 series, where barely any of the GPUs actually exist yet. It is what I've been saying for months: AMD has prioritized production of Zen 3 CPUs over GPUs on their limited TSMC 7 nm node capacity.
https://wccftech.com/amds-ryzen-5000-ryzen-3000zen-3-zen-2-desktop-cpus-demolish-all-sales-records/
What's interesting to me is that, while there is still a shortage of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs, quite a lot of them are showing up at retail--and then immediately selling out. One retailer in Germany sold just shy of 10k of the CPUs in one month, all by themselves. For comparison, they sold more Ryzen 5000 series CPUs that month than they did of all Intel CPUs combined. So this is hardly a paper launch, nor even all that soft of a launch. It actually is what vendors usually claim when they do a soft launch: incredibly high demand.
Retailers that sell individual CPUs cater to the enthusiast market, of course, which is only a small subset of all desktop CPUs. But this would point toward the number of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs shipped so far at least being well into the hundreds of thousands, and possibly in the millions. This is nothing like the Radeon RX 6000 series, where barely any of the GPUs actually exist yet. It is what I've been saying for months: AMD has prioritized production of Zen 3 CPUs over GPUs on their limited TSMC 7 nm node capacity.
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Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
I kind of just look at the netire market and see a lot of wasted spending,people have gone full mad addiction on gaming and peripherals.Now with Covid so bad and seemingly here in Canada not getting any better,i suspect more stay homes gaming.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Same with PS5s and nVidia GPUs.
so those things are coming, they are just going faster than they come in. I have no problem finding inventory on eBay though...
I don’t see nearly as many XB or AMD GPUs floating though. Those are rare beasts - and I’d second the paper launch sentiment on those products.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.