Ryzen 7 9800X3D is selling like hotcakes at major German retailer — Mindfactory sold 8,700 CPUs in a single day

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If you've been waiting to buy a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, you can now get one at higher asking prices if you live in Germany.

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One of the best CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, is still in strong demand months after its launch. German news outlet ComputerBase reports that AMD's gaming champ is readily available in Germany but with a higher price tag.

Availability for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is purportedly far more consistent than at its launch two months ago when it was impossible to find the CPU in stock at any price (unless you wanted to pay scalper prices). MindFactory is currently selling the Ryzen 7 9800X3D at €589 (~$604), €60 (~$62) above MSRP, helping keep inventory from flying off store shelves.

MindFactory also purportedly shared sales volume statistics of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. On January 1, the retailer sold almost 8,700 CPUs in a single day. From January 1 to the morning of January 11, the retailer nearly doubled its sales, selling 14,160 units. For perspective, MindFactory sells Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs every two and a half minutes, assuming demand keeps up at the same rate it has for the past 10 days.

Ryzen 7 9800X3D availability is also becoming more positive in the United States. According to metrics from PCPartPicker, the Ryzen 9800X3D has been consistently available from Newegg (see Newegg Promo codes) since December 14, though take this with a grain of salt. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now available for just $10 over MSRP on Amazon and at Newegg for $739.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D was one of the most in-demand CPUs in 2024, if not the most in-demand. After an underwhelming Ryzen 9000 series launch, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D turned things around, offering gamers a 15% performance improvement on average compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and an even greater performance improvement against non-X3D CPUs.

As a result, the highly performant part quickly gained customers' attention worldwide, hitting Amazon's #1 spot as its best-selling CPU just several days after launch. AMD believes that Intel's "horrible" Arrow Lake CPU launch was to blame for the Ryzen 6 9800X3D's sky-high demand, noting that demand had been a "little higher than we forecasted" due to Intel building a "horrible" product.

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Aaron Klotz
Aaron Klotz
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Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.

20 Comments Comment from the forums
  • valthuer
    Intel's incompetence is responsible for this situation.
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  • diabbb
    Admin said:
    ComputerBase reports that the ryzen 7 9800X3D can now be purchased more readily overseas at a higher asking price.

    Ryzen 7 9800X3D is selling like hotcakes at major German retailer — Mindfactory sold 8,700 CPUs in a single day : Read more
    They did not sell 8700 CPUs in one day. They did sell 8700 CPUs up until January 1. Retranslate your source.
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  • spongiemaster
    valthuer said:
    Intel's incompetence is responsible for this situation.
    In other news, Intel sells about 180,000 CPU's a day to Lenovo alone. This is why Intel's Client Computing Group generates more revenue and profits than the entire company of AMD. You think Intel cares that AMD sold 8700 CPU's over the course of 2 months (Article incorrectly says 1 day)to a German retailer?

    https://www.ibselectronics.com/resources/news/lenovo-continues-to-lead-the-global-pc-market-share/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20latest%20data,market%20share%20increased%20to%2024.8%25.
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  • valthuer
    spongiemaster said:
    In other news, Intel sells about 180,000 CPU's a day to Lenovo alone. This is why Intel's Client Computing Group generates more revenue and profits than the entire company of AMD. You think Intel cares that AMD sold 8700 CPU's over the course of 2 months (Article incorrectly says 1 day)to a German retailer?

    https://www.ibselectronics.com/resources/news/lenovo-continues-to-lead-the-global-pc-market-share/#:~:text=According to the latest data,market share increased to 24.8%.

    It's not just a German retailer: between Arrow Lake's poor gaming performance and 9800X3D's overwhelming success, it feels like the whole tide has shifted in the CPU front.
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  • -Fran-
    spongiemaster said:
    In other news, Intel sells about 180,000 CPU's a day to Lenovo alone. This is why Intel's Client Computing Group generates more revenue and profits than the entire company of AMD. You think Intel cares that AMD sold 8700 CPU's over the course of 2 months (Article incorrectly says 1 day)to a German retailer?

    https://www.ibselectronics.com/resources/news/lenovo-continues-to-lead-the-global-pc-market-share/#:~:text=According to the latest data,market share increased to 24.8%.
    Sorry to say, but your reply made me chuckle...

    "My Mustang beat your EVO in the dragstrip..."
    "Well, the EVOs run in rallies and even in the Dakar! who cares about quarter mile numbers!"

    There was a touch of infantilism in the way you mentioned it that, well, I couldn't help but chuckle at.

    But to keep this on topic: that's a very big strawman, since a normal person can't buy those CPUs from Lenovo/Dell/Acer/HP/etc directly, so this is strictly speaking on DYI and/or small businesses (you small local shops, perhaps) which can't buy directly from Intel. Plus, no one is saying this is making a dent on Intel's financials, but it's telling of how badly received the new CPUs are. AMD has been there with Bulldozer, so it's not like this is "new" in the CPU industry.

    Regards.
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  • redgarl
    valthuer said:
    Intel's incompetence is responsible for this situation.
    Not entirely, the 98800x3D is also a really good CPU.
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  • redgarl
    spongiemaster said:
    In other news, Intel sells about 180,000 CPU's a day to Lenovo alone. This is why Intel's Client Computing Group generates more revenue and profits than the entire company of AMD. You think Intel cares that AMD sold 8700 CPU's over the course of 2 months (Article incorrectly says 1 day)to a German retailer?

    https://www.ibselectronics.com/resources/news/lenovo-continues-to-lead-the-global-pc-market-share/#:~:text=According to the latest data,market share increased to 24.8%.
    Not true at all. Intel is in the red so don`t talk about revenue or profit.
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  • spongiemaster
    -Fran- said:
    Sorry to say, but your reply made me chuckle...

    "My Mustang beat your EVO in the dragstrip..."
    "Well, the EVOs run in rallies and even in the Dakar! who cares about quarter mile numbers!"

    There was a touch of infantilism in the way you mentioned it that, well, I couldn't help but chuckle at.

    But to keep this on topic: that's a very big strawman, since a normal person can't buy those CPUs from Lenovo/Dell/Acer/HP/etc directly, so this is strictly speaking on DYI and/or small businesses (you small local shops, perhaps) which can't buy directly from Intel. Plus, no one is saying this is making a dent on Intel's financials, but it's telling of how badly received the new CPUs are. AMD has been there with Bulldozer, so it's not like this is "new" in the CPU industry.

    Regards.
    You missed the point. The response was to Intel's incompetence. Yea, they haven't been able to execute their roadmap for years. Almost all of it is the fault of the manufacturing arm of the company. That hasn't stopped them from controlling 2/3's of the x86 market. For some reason, enthusiast sites like this one can't stopped posting mindfactory articles which give a completely false view of the global CPU market. 8700 CPU's in two months? Who cares? Dell, the 3rd largest OEM sold more than that every 2 HOURS in q3 last year. And we all know, almost all of those are Intel CPU's. Intel doesn't care what individual retailers are doing, they're focused on the big picture.
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  • spongiemaster
    redgarl said:
    Not true at all. Intel is in the red so don`t talk about revenue or profit.
    The ignorance is astonishing. If a company is losing money, it doesn't mean every individual segment of the company is losing money. I didn't say Intel profits. I said a specific department within the company.
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  • -Fran-
    spongiemaster said:
    You missed the point. The response was to Intel's incompetence. Yea, they haven't been able to execute their roadmap for years. Almost all of it is the fault of the manufacturing arm of the company. That hasn't stopped them from controlling 2/3's of the x86 market. For some reason, enthusiast sites like this one can't stopped posting mindfactory articles which give a completely false view of the global CPU market. 8700 CPU's in two months? Who cares? Dell, the 3rd largest OEM sold more than that every 2 HOURS in q3 last year. And we all know, almost all of those are Intel CPU's. Intel doesn't care what individual retailers are doing, they're focused on the big picture.
    I can agree to AMD's snark being very dumb in the same vein as Pat's comments I've been mocking forever, so it's just a matter of waiting and see if it comes back to haunt them.

    As for the rest: no, I didn't miss the point. This is DYI market, so bringing overall corporate sell/purchase is moot (a strawman). Dell, HP, etc have contracts to purchase in bulk and those are for years, so Intel's allocation to them has been set in stone long before ArrowLake was launched. Can you imagine them buying per-released CPU? LOL. Come on, you know better.

    The point stands (somewhat): ArrowLake was a nasty surprise for OEMs. So much so that Dell got on stage with AMD. DELL.

    Regards.
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