AMD confirms Ryzen 7 9800X3D stock will improve soon — chipmaker says more processors are being shipped weekly

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
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One of the best CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, launched over a month ago, but supplies are still scarce. However, AMD expects the supply to improve soon.

“We are working diligently to get as much supply to market as soon as possible, with more processors being shipped every week. We expect availability to get better as shipments ramp throughout the quarter," an AMD representative told Tom's Hardware.

Currently, gamers and enthusiasts are having difficulty finding this chip, which hit the top of Amazon’s top ten best-selling processors about 10 days after it went on sale. It has gotten to the point that some scalpers are selling it for up to $1,000—more than double its $479 launch price. For instance, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is in stock at Walmart but costs almost $800. There are also third-party sellers with fake listings offering the chip at a ridiculous price, so always double-check that the store you’re purchasing from has a reputable reputation.

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RetailerCPUPrice / MSRP $480
AmazonRyzen 7 9800X3D$479
NeweggRyzen 7 9800X3D$479
Best BuyRyzen 7 9800X3D$479
B&H PhotoRyzen 7 9800X3D$479
WalmartRyzen 7 9800X3D$541
AMDRyzen 7 9800X3D$479

The 3D V-Cache technology that AMD championed has allowed the company to dominate Intel in the gaming category. Because of this, everyone who wants a monster gaming PC is gunning for this chip, leading to this shortage. Fortunately, it seems that AMD can ramp up its production quickly enough to allow more supply to hit the market, thus satiating the needs of the gaming masses. This is doubly important as we hit the peak of the holiday season when many want to spend time upgrading their systems.

So, if you’re raring to get a new X3D chip in the next few weeks, you should wait a little bit more, as AMD should be able to deliver more processors onto store shelves. However, if you cannot wait any longer, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is still widely available, although it might not offer good value if the Ryzen 7 9800X3D gets back in stock so soon.

But if you have an AM4 motherboard and don’t want to spend so much money on a brand-new system, you could instead upgrade your processor to the AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D, which launched this year. This could give you better gaming performance, allowing you to extend the life of your gaming PC a couple more years before needing to upgrade again.

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Jowi Morales
Jowi Morales
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Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.

14 Comments Comment from the forums
  • FunSurfer
    I don't understand AMD, wasting time and resources with making a lot of Ryzen 9600 and 9700 CPUs that are sitting idle on stores' shelves and not enough of 9800X3D that everybody and his wife wants. They should have made less of the non X3D variants so there will be a shortage of those so their price will go up and more of 9800X3D to begin with so they will sell more units, a win-win situation.
    By the way, anybody knows if 9800X3D will support Windows 12?
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  • USAFRet
    FunSurfer said:
    By the way, anybody knows if 9800X3D will support Windows 12?
    Seeing as the requirements and restrictions for "Windows 12" are completely unknown so far....
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  • Notton
    FunSurfer said:
    making a lot of Ryzen 9600
    That's the 6-core binning because they're defective 9700/9800 chips.
    Are you saying you want AMD to pull an Intel and aggressively bin poor quality chips into a higher tier?
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  • aberkae
    FunSurfer said:
    I don't understand AMD, wasting time and resources with making a lot of Ryzen 9600 and 9700 CPUs that are sitting idle on stores' shelves and not enough of 9800X3D that everybody and his wife wants. They should have made less of the non X3D variants so there will be a shortage of those so their price will go up and more of 9800X3D to begin with so they will sell more units, a win-win situation.
    By the way, anybody knows if 9800X3D will support Windows 12?
    So they can place them in the 9900xd and 9950X3D. They are the currently AMD's version of the e cores that scales from very efficient to power hungry with minimal gains.
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  • stuff and nonesense
    FunSurfer said:
    I don't understand AMD, wasting time and resources with making a lot of Ryzen 9600 and 9700 CPUs that are sitting idle on stores' shelves and not enough of 9800X3D that everybody and his wife wants. They should have made less of the non X3D variants so there will be a shortage of those so their price will go up and more of 9800X3D to begin with so they will sell more units, a win-win situation.
    By the way, anybody knows if 9800X3D will support Windows 12?

    Make the chips, bin out the chips that won’t make 9700x grade.. put them in 9600x and fuse off the defective cores.
    Bin out the cores good enough for x3d, put them aside and release as 9800x3d, 9900x3d and 9950x3d.

    The remainder put into 9700x, 9950x and the best 6 good core chiplets go into the 9900x.

    The 9800x3d came out much more quickly than the 7800/5800x3d versions of their generations. Perhaps the launch was an effective way of squashing Intel’s thunder with their core ultra (or whatever it’s called).

    Not quite a paper launch but launching while knowing that supply is limited and will be for a short while to come.

    aberkae said:
    So they can place them in the 9900xd and 9950X3D. They are the currently AMD's version of the e cores that scales from very efficient to power hungry with minimal gains.

    Zen C cores are in their Epyc and Threadripper high density parts, many cores. Yes they are lower power and the cache is reduced but the processor cores have feature parity with the non C cores. They aren’t equivalent to the neutered Intel E cores.
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  • aberkae
    stuff and nonesense said:
    Make the chips, bin out the chips that won’t make 9700x grade.. put them in 9600x and fuse off the defective cores.
    Bin out the cores good enough for x3d, put them aside and release as 9800x3d, 9900x3d and 9950x3d.

    The remainder put into 9700x, 9950x and the best 6 good core chiplets go into the 9900x.

    The 9800x3d came out much more quickly than the 7800/5800x3d versions of their generations. Perhaps the launch was an effective way of squashing Intel’s thunder with their core ultra (or whatever it’s called).

    Not quite a paper launch but launching while knowing that supply is limited and will be for a short while to come.



    Zen C cores are in their Epyc and Threadripper high density parts, many cores. Yes they are lower power and the cache is reduced but the processor cores have feature parity with the non C cores. They aren’t equivalent to the neutered Intel E cores.
    True also for every one dual ccd cpu with cache that we hoped for AMD can sell 2 x single cached ccd for the maximum premium of $480 and sell those 9700x/9600x that have plenty of stock the the lackluster demand in comparison to the cached ccd.
    Hopefully AMD changes course with zen 6 and changes the ratio of output. More cached ccds and less of the non extra cached ccds.
    I really hope they make a last hurra with Zen6 x3d dual cached ccd cpu on am5.
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  • umeng2002_2
    OlRLuajAgIcView: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlRLuajAgIc

    It also depends on how exactly they/ TSMC is binning and assembling the chips. Until known demand is demonstrated, they might not have wanted to make a ton upfront. If they are binned after assembly, they'll have a lot of 9600X3D laying around for months or years.
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  • FunSurfer
    Notton said:
    That's the 6-core binning because they're defective 9700/9800 chips.
    Are you saying you want AMD to pull an Intel and aggressively bin poor quality chips into a higher tier?
    No, I mean they could use the production lines, time and money to make 9800X3D instead of 9600Xs (for now, when there is a very high demand only for the X3D CPU)
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  • stuff and nonesense
    Chips suitable for the 9600x, six good cores are 8 core chiplets with 2 cores that don’t perform well enough. That are fused off.

    They don’t make 6 core chiplets, they harvest them from the bad 8 cores. 9600x chiplets wouldn’t work as 9800x3d chiplets.
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  • rluker5
    AMD probably has to compete with Nvidia for TSMC resources so the situation will improve when demand for AI wanes.
    Maybe AMD will have some leftover scheduled production capacity from their Instinct line that seems in low demand. It really seems like a they just can't get enough made issue to me because the demand is there.
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