In a few days, it will be a month since the official launch of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800 X3Done of the most coveted processors this year for the fantastic performance it offers, especially in games. However, try buy One of these new AMD processors has become a real odyssey, at least in Europe, since the vast majority of stores do not have stock or, what little they have, try to sell it at exorbitant prices.
Already in the last generation we could see that AMD's 3D V-Cache processors were a blow to Lisa Su's table in terms of gaming performance, so it was not surprising that the new generation had the users very eager to get one of the best gaming processors currently available.
You cannot buy the Ryzen 7 9800 X3D in Europe
Personally, I don't know if this was due to high demand or poor foresight on AMD's part, but what is certain is that someone didn't do their homework properly. The Ryzen 7 9800
AMD must have been aware that sales of this processor were going to skyrocket, even though it's not exactly a cheap processor (its official retail price is 530 dollars), especially when thousands of people usually wait for these dates to do their shopping for the year, with promotions like Black Friday or the Christmas campaign in preparation. Come on, they must have known they were going to sell a lot.
However, since November 8 you can no longer buy this processor in stores in Europe. There was not a single unit on store shelves, except in some online stores that began to artificially increase their prices. You know, supply and demand: there's a lot of demand and few products, so they raise prices… to get rich, of course. I call that speculation, but that's another issue we'll talk about another time.
The point is that, clearly, AMD didn't do their homework and released a processor that they knew for sure would be a hit, but they didn't have enough units to satisfy demand, causing something similar to what happened when NVIDIA initially launched the RTX 40 series, or when Sony first launched the PS5: speculation. So the few stores that offer a few units have almost doubled the prices (currently, if you are willing to pay 800-900 dollars, you can buy a Ryzen 7 9800 filled with users hoping to make a profit.
Is this an intentionally caused situation? Was AMD wrong in its predictions? Should an incompetent person join unemployment? Personally, we think this was a lack of foresight, but an unwarranted lack of foresight because AMD must have known, out of necessity, that this processor was going to sell like candy outside of a school. Anyway, judge for yourself, but what seems clear is that we will have to wait a few months to see this new Ryzen 7 9800 X3D at the right price. And it's bad for everyone.
