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The original release date for Zen 5 based AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs was 31st July. It has now been delayed to August for unspecified reasons.
In early June, AMD officially announced the Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs. However, it didn’t mention the release dates.
Later, it was finally revealed that the AMD Ryzen 9000 is going to release in the July 31. However, AMD made no mention of its prices.
Earlier today, AMD gave huge amount of details behind the Zen 5 architecture. Tom’s Hardware has the complete coverage about it.
At the same time, ComputerBase reported (via VideoCardz) that reviewers have still not received any CPU samples for testing. Which is surprising as testing CPUs take a few days.
Now it is revealed is that the reason why reviewers have not gotten any samples as the release for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series is getting delayed.
Ryzen 9000 Delayed To August
Kitguru (via VideoCardz) and Tom’s Hardware reports that AMD is delaying the release of the Ryzen 9000 series to August “due to an unspecified quality issue”.
Specifically, AMD Ryzen 9600X and Ryzen 9700X CPUs release dates have been delayed to 8th August. Whereas, AMD Ryzen 9900X and Ryzen 9950X CPUs release dates have been delayed to 15th August.
Not only that, AMD has pulled back all the Ryzen 9000 CPUs that it had delivered to all the retailers and OEMs. Tom’s Hardware calls this an unprecedented move by AMD in recent times.
AMD found the issues in the CPUs during final processor checks. They somehow didn’t find these issues during their initial checking.
An AMD representative spoke to Tom’s Hardware and said that the Ryzen 9000 silicon doesn’t require any redesign or re-spin. AMD will just re-check all the recalled CPUs and those without issues will be sent back to the retailers.
The statement also suggests some sort of CPU manufacturing packaging issue. Here, the CPU packaging means that the chip (chiplets in AMD’s case) is installed on the CPU base board. This suggests that there indeed doesn’t seem to be any issue with the chips themselves.
Official Statement
AMD has released an official statement to both Kitguru and Tom’s Hardware. Here’s the statement below:
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.”
– Jack Huynh, AMD SVP and GM of Computing and Graphics. Credit: Tom’s Hardware and Kitguru.
Conclusion
Ryzen 9000 is a great opportunity for AMD to beat Intel. Not only in launch timing, but also in performance.
These days, Intel is in all the wrong news. Intel CPUs are crashing everywhere and there still isn’t a proper fix available for it. Though Intel claims to have found a root issue, the fix is going to come later.
So, AMD Ryzen 9000’s delay can be seen in two ways. On one side, AMD too joins Intel in CPU issues. On the other side, AMD has done a good thing to identify the issues before the launch and is trying to fix it.
Whatever it is. We hope the issue gets fixed quickly and consumers aren’t too much affected by it. We might see the reviews to release in August on the release dates of the respective CPUs.
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