AM4 has been around for so long and is owned by so many people, there’s still a big market for those who want to upgrade without replacing their motherboard and RAM at the same time.
Ryzen desktop chips use the same compute chiplets as server (server has a long tail for adoption and a steady need for replacement parts), so they have a large supply of chiplets that don’t meet server requirements but can be downclocked or given more voltage for desktop. This also fulfills the low end desktop market, so they don’t have to produce lower end chips on more expensive nodes. There’s also a lot of AM4 platforms that can get a new lease on life with a drop in Zen3 replacement.
Then you also have supply from the laptop side with similar issues (don’t meet voltage requirements for efficiency), which is where the APUs come from.
I agree it’s a bit puzzling? It’s crazy that AMD is releasing a new CPU for a 7 year old platform.
But admittedly I am personally still running with my trusty old Ryzen 5 1600, maybe I’d consider an upgrade just because it’s easy and cheap, but it’s not like I really need it.
I’m guessing there are a lot of AM4 motherboards out there, so there is still a market for making upgrades for them.
It’s interesting to see 5k series, is the adoption of 7k that bad or do they just have a lot of 5k series left?
Or is 7k too expensive so 5k is kept on live support to keep something in that price range?
AM4 has been around for so long and is owned by so many people, there’s still a big market for those who want to upgrade without replacing their motherboard and RAM at the same time.
Indeed bought an x570 ITX mobo with loudest IO fan in existence. Looking to upgrade asap.
Ryzen desktop chips use the same compute chiplets as server (server has a long tail for adoption and a steady need for replacement parts), so they have a large supply of chiplets that don’t meet server requirements but can be downclocked or given more voltage for desktop. This also fulfills the low end desktop market, so they don’t have to produce lower end chips on more expensive nodes. There’s also a lot of AM4 platforms that can get a new lease on life with a drop in Zen3 replacement.
Then you also have supply from the laptop side with similar issues (don’t meet voltage requirements for efficiency), which is where the APUs come from.
I agree it’s a bit puzzling? It’s crazy that AMD is releasing a new CPU for a 7 year old platform.
But admittedly I am personally still running with my trusty old Ryzen 5 1600, maybe I’d consider an upgrade just because it’s easy and cheap, but it’s not like I really need it.
I’m guessing there are a lot of AM4 motherboards out there, so there is still a market for making upgrades for them.
it’s probably more because intel hasn’t dropped ddr4 yet in their new chips, and won’t until late '24/early '25 with arrow lake and the new socket.
Nice, you and me both. 1700 still in my daily driver and a 1600 I got on a combo sale from Fry’s (RIP) for my home camera NVR system.
I keep feeling the itch to upgrade, but realistically, they’re still doing fine.
Yeah that 1700 was basically a $1000 workstation CPU if you needed that level of performance a year earlier.
Ryzen was insane value at the time. ;)