Scalpers circle AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition, asking for $600 or more — re-released CPU sees inconsistent inventory on release day

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The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is sold out at most retailers, but you can grab it at list price from Amazon right now.

Scalpers are moving in on AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition. The new CPU, which is identical to the original but "re-engineered" for a new bonding process, is on sale officially today, June 29. We've been keeping track of inventory and haven't seen the chip available for more than a few minutes — and amid the flurry, scalpers are stepping in and asking for $600 or more for the chip on the secondhand market, sometimes doubling the CPU's $350 MSRP.

Over on eBay, most listings for the chip are above $600, with some asking for $750 or more. Worse, they've sold for that price. Looking at sold listings, at least two of the CPUs sold today, one for $540 and another for $585. Most of the listings just use the stock product photo, but some scalpers have an actual CPU in-hand.

Micro Center has the chip available for sale, standalone or as part of a bundle with a motherboard and RAM, and it's exclusively available in Micro Center stores. Presumably some scalpers went to buy a chip at Micro Center this morning to flip it on eBay in the afternoon.

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Although it's easy to get caught up in the rush of a new release (or old release, in this case), we don't recommend giving into scalper prices. Rumors have circulated that the 10th Anniversary Edition is a limited-time run, but that's not the case. AMD says it plans on continuing to make the CPU, so we should see inventory stabilize eventually.

We have some placeholder listings available. Again, we've seen inconsistent inventory throughout the morning, so check back at these retailers regularly:

We've been checking retailer listings all morning, and we've only briefly seen the chip in stock. Online, some buyers claim they've secured a CPU through Newegg, but we haven't been able to successfully move through the checkout process yet. We also haven't seen the chip come back in stock on AMD's direct web store yet.

Because of that, it looks like retailers are doing something of a staggered rollout. There's a good chance we'll see more inventory released throughout the day, so make sure to check back at retailers.

We just re-reviewed the Ryzen 7 5800X3D to evaluate how the CPU stacks up to the current market at its new $350 suggested retail price. If you already have an AM4 motherboard and memory to go with the CPU, it's a good choice at $350. Otherwise, there are better options.

AMD's newer Ryzen 7 7600X3D is just as fast in applications, despite sporting fewer cores, and it's around 15% faster in games. Meanwhile, Intel's Core i7-14700K paired with DDR4 matches the 5800X3D in games and offers around twice the multithreaded performance. With DDR5, the Core i7-14700K wins across the board.

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Jake Roach
Jake Roach
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Jake Roach is the Senior CPU Analyst at Tom’s Hardware, writing reviews, news, and features about the latest consumer and workstation processors.

20 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Neilbob
    All scalpers deserve to slip accidentally into a mechanical chicken separator.
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  • usertests
    Neilbob said:
    All scalpers deserve to slip accidentally into a mechanical chicken separator.
    Just don't be poor and violent.
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  • TechieTwo
    FOOLS rush in... ;)
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  • limsrr
    Literally made this account to send corrections, hopefully the author will fix this.
    The chip is currently readily available thru Microcenter both as a standalone and as bundles. I was able to go pickup a standalone at my local MC, they had plenty.

    Also, the official AMD website did go live this morning at 9am EST, they sold out in about 15 minutes.

    The currently US retailers that have gone live are AMD.com, Newegg and Amazon.
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  • JakeRoach
    limsrr said:
    Literally made this account to send corrections, hopefully the author will fix this.
    The chip is currently readily available thru Microcenter both as a standalone and as bundles. I was able to go pickup a standalone at my local MC, they had plenty.

    Also, the official AMD website did go live this morning at 9am EST, they sold out in about 15 minutes.

    The currently US retailers that have gone live are AMD.com, Newegg and Amazon.
    Hi there. It looks like the MC situation depends on the individual store. As for AMD and Newegg, yes, we saw listings go live. We've also seen them go out of stock and come back in stock throughout the morning.

    Amazon has gone live through third-party sellers, which are currently asking $616 for it.
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  • purposelycryptic
    Neilbob said:
    All scalpers deserve to slip accidentally into a mechanical chicken separator.
    ...and ruin a perfectly good mechanical chicken separator? This is exactly what mankind created hog lagoons for.
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  • limsrr
    JakeRoach said:
    Hi there. It looks like the MC situation depends on the individual store. As for AMD and Newegg, yes, we saw listings go live. We've also seen them go out of stock and come back in stock throughout the morning.

    Amazon has gone live through third-party sellers, which are currently asking $616 for it.

    Hi Jake, thank you for the reply. According the standalone CPU page on MC, every single one has them except 1 that is out of stock in Maryland.

    In your article you state, "We also haven't seen the chip go live on AMD's direct web store yet." which is false. Also AMD.com never came back into stock, once it was gone at approx 9:20, it has not come back.

    Newegg is the only one that had flickering in and out stock through the day.

    Amazon also did go live at 12pmEST and was available directly sold and shipped from Amazon. It sold out in 30 minutes.

    Thanks.
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  • Trake_17
    If you buy a new processor on eBay, especially if you buy it for list price or more, you're supporting scalpers. They buy up all the inventory in hopes of a demand surge, and there's no skin in the game for them if they can sell it back for what they bought for later if the demand surge never materializes. I figure basically no one is in a used market selling something new that wasn't hoping to scalp it first.
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  • masterv3ga
    I was thankfully able to pick one of these up from Newegg this morning at MSRP. My wife's old R7 2700x is the thing weighing her system down and she has just new enough of a motherboard to support it.

    This seems like a very stupid part to scalp. Do people want it? Yes, but they want it because it enables them to build a reasonably powerful yet significantly less expensive gaming PC. If you add $300 to its asking price, the would-be buyer might as well buy a more recent system with more up-to-date memory unless this is an in-slot upgrade.

    And if it's an in-slot upgrade, the would-be buyer can just wait. That's what we planned to do if everything got snapped up before we could buy one.
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  • umeng2002_2
    AMD did not re-design the bonding just for a limited run. Scalpers and traitors get the same punishment in my book.
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