AMD Ryzen 9000 sales are as bad as Bulldozers [RUMOR]

The debut of AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs was not good, especially due to the below-expected performance in reviews, coupled with the fact that a patch would be needed to alleviate the issue. This impacted the sales of these processors in a way that the series became the worst launch since Bulldozer.

Ryzen has been gaining popularity with each new generation, whether among gamers or productivity workers. But the debut of the Zen 5 architecture took a different direction.

According to a survey by the Hardware Unboxed channel, which spoke to different retail stores worldwide, this whole problem of low performance, especially in games, requires updates to alleviate the situation, “had a disastrous effect on sales“.

In Australia, the country of the channel, sales were so low that the numbers “are hard to believe“Retailers said initial sales of AMD Ryzen 9000s are the worst since the launch of the first generation of this series of processors.

Ryzen 9000 below Ryzen 7000 in sales

German retailer Mindfactory regularly releases sales of hardware, whether CPUs or GPUs, from time to time. And according to the retailer’s data, the debut week of Zen 4 (Ryzen 7000) CPUs saw sales twice as high as the new Zen 5 desktop PCs managed in an entire month.

It’s worth remembering that the Ryzen 7000 came with a platform change requirement. Anyone migrating from another Ryzen generation (or even an Intel Core) would also have to buy an AM5 motherboard, in addition to DDR5 memory. Everything leads us to believe that not even owners of this platform were as interested in the Ryzen 9000, which requires a simple processor change.

Moore’s Law is Dead says that, according to one of its sources, the launch of the Ryzen 9000 is worse than the arrival of the AMD Bulldozer. The Zen 5 SKU that has seen the most sales is the top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 9950X for workload, a processing area in which AMD’s new CPUs perform well, unlike games.

We are talking about large markets such as Australia and part of Europe and, apparently, this information from Moore’s Law is Dead refers to the North American market, the largest in the world.

The Ryzen 9000 has already received AGESA updates from AMD, released by motherboard manufacturers, but this in itself seems to have caused, perhaps, a difficult situation to resolve in the sales of these processors.

Via: PC Gamer