Wccftech obtained an internal report from AMD, indicating that the company is planning to reduce the production plan of its Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 series CPUs.
AMD’s internal management said it plans to reduce the production of the Ryzen 7000 “Zen 4” series processors due to the decline in the PC market and the overall poor acceptance of the AM5 platform.
Since the AM5 platform is AMD’s latest generation platform, coupled with a series of powerful additional features such as DDR5 and PCIe 5.0, this has raised the initial price of the motherboard to a certain extent, and even the recently launched entry-level B650 series has not been able to achieve AMD’s $125 commitment.
Due to the high price of the AM5 platform and the high price of DDR5 memory relative to the DDR4 platform, coupled with the much-discussed heat accumulation problem, the AMD Ryzen R7 7700X has proven to have better gaming performance than Intel’s 13th Gen Core i7-13700K. save its sales.
The report also noted that hardware enthusiasts are currently the main buyers of AM5, while the most expensive Ryzen 9 7900X has become the best-selling model in the Ryzen 7000 series. It is worth mentioning that this data is not based on data from a specific retailer, but on AMD’s global shipments and retail data.
But the question is if AMD users want stronger game performance, isn’t it enough to upgrade the R7 5800X3D directly on the AM4 platform? For them, 8 Zen 3 cores can still bring good multi-threaded performance, and the 3D cache can guarantee their gaming performance exceeds i9-12900K, so users are very confused about buying AM4 or AM5.
Judging from the existing revelations, AMD has actually prepared a 3D V-Cache model for the Ryzen 7000 series, but they will probably not officially release it until CES 2023, and it remains to be seen whether AM4 will get a new 3D cache product.
But taking a step back, even without the X3D option, the AM4 lineup has many more cost-effective options, and neither the 6, 8, 12 or 16-core chips are significantly weaker than the AM5 platform product experience.
The sales gap between AM4 and AM5 can also be seen intuitively from the statistics shared by TechEpiphany. At present, most netizens believe that AMD really needs to rethink the pricing of AM5 products:
