AMD Zen 3 AM4 CPU prices surge as customers flock to desktop processors with DDR4 support

[Redaktion]

The price of Zen 3 CPUs has increased dramatically over the past few months. Despite being old, desktop processors like the Ryzen 7 5700X are now sitting quite a bit above their record-low prices. This means that customers are buying old AM4 CPUs with DDR4 support as a consequence of the ongoing DRAM supply crunch.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Zen-3-AM4-CPU-prices-surge-as-customers-flock-to-desktop-processors-with-DDR4-support.1209042.0.html

[Darren7]

"Chips like the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which are still quite capable for gaming"

"Quite capable"? Seriously? At 4k there's no difference in most games vs the 9800x3d.

[Zip]

Releasing more older AM4 CPUs will just have the same effect on DDR4 prices, greed drives every breath in this world. Retailers don't give a rats left nut about keeping prices cheap. There's no money in cheap products in the western world. More expensive garbage products is what North America is all about. As retailers see a shift to older hardware, prices go up, regardless of supply and demand 

[years?]

"Quite capable"? Seriously? At 4k there's no difference in most games vs the 9800x3d.

Correct and same applies even in 1440p, especially in modern AAA titles, which are mostly GPU-bound.

Zip, new fabs are being built rn, but the memory demand has also grown. So, those who can't afford the current prices have to wait (how long is the question). Previous laptops with up to 32 GB RAM are receiving a refresh with up to 64 GB RAM, but to fit a good/smart LLM, like Gpt-Oss-120B or GLM-4.5-Air (quant) at (close to) full context, really 96 GB RAM (or probably slightly a few GBs more*) are be required.

* = go to huggingface.co/spaces/oobabooga/accurate-gguf-vram-calculator, paste huggingface.co/unsloth/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF/blob/main/gpt-oss-120b-F16.gguf into the calculator and set context to full.