AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Faces Shortage, Resulting in High Prices on Ebay

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• AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Faces Shortage, Resulting in High Prices on Ebay

If you're hoping to get your hands on the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, AMD's latest flagship processor, you may need to prepare to spend big, or at least wait for stock to pick up. Currently in the United States, the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X processor is sold almost everywhere. Almost every retailer sells, including Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg, which hasn't even gone on sale yet, and Micro Center. Even on AMD's website, the Ryzen 9 3900X is no longer available. However, if you're feeling particularly brave, you can find the processor on eBay, but you won't find it at the MSRP. Instead, you can expect to pay around €700 (roughly £560, AU$995). We managed to find the used processor on eBay for less than that, but it's still over $100 at retail, $600 (about $480, AU$850). We checked with UK and Australian retailers to see if availability was better. If you're in the UK, you should be able to "pre-order" the chip from Amazon, Scan or Overclockers, although it takes at least a month to arrive at your doorstep. And, in Australia, you can pre-order the chip at PLE, but the Ryzen 9 3900X apparently doesn't even exist on Amazon. And, in mWave, the processor is not available for purchase, with the option to be notified as availability increases.

Where are all the processors?

In our review, the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X totally destroyed the competition by offering a 25% faster multi-core GeekBench score than the Intel Core i9-9900K at the same price. So obviously that will create some demand. However, the fact that it is a traditional 12-core processor likely contributes to this supply issue. So it's likely that there are a decent number of chips that don't pass the internal testing phase, but that's pure speculation on our part. At the end of the day, it's pretty standard for a newer version of the processor. By the end of 2018, Intel was facing highly publicized supply problems, to the point that analysts said the Santa Clara tech giant was slowing PC sales. We don't know if this shortage of XNUMXrd Gen AMD Ryzen will be that severe, but AMD says it will "deliver significant volumes of product to our retail and e-commerce partners," according to a PCWorld report. Let's all try to get their hands on this high-end processor at the same time. Whatever it is, we'll see how this Ryzen availability news plays out in the coming weeks, and hopefully anyone looking to insert one of these chips into their rigs will be able to do so in time.