AMD Ryzen 5000 restocking should get better soon - here's when

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If you've been trying to get your hands on a new AMD Ryzen 5000-series desktop processor, you may find it easier soon, as the company is set to increase its supply of ordered processors by as much as 20% in the coming months. After launching last year, Ryzen 5000-series desktop processors such as the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and AMD Ryzen 9 5900X have been pretty rare, even after AMD has so far shipped over a million units of processor series. However, as Wccftech points out, demand for the new silicon has far outpaced supply of chips, leading to shortages, but not as severe as those for the RTX 3000 and Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards. AMD appears to be making progress on the supply of enough chips to meet demand, and expects to increase its supply of new processors by 20% in the second quarter of 2021, compared to the first quarter. Part of the bottleneck has been with die maker TSMC, whose 7nm manufacturing process has come under incredible pressure to meet orders for its silicon that powers much of this new generation of technology, computer, graphics cards, PS5 and Xbox series. Consoles X | S. It should also help mitigate some of the price gouging that has occurred online, as limited stocks drive up prices in response to strong demand, especially for high-end chips like the 5900X and 5950X.

Graphics cards will always be hard to find, unfortunately

The increase in processor supply for AMD might give some hope of a comparable GPU supply increase soon, but that's probably unlikely anytime soon. Even as processor supply increases, graphics card shortages are caused by a few factors that processor availability doesn't have to deal with. On the one hand, the demand for next-generation GPUs is much higher than that for CPUs. Many gamers had been hesitant to upgrade their graphics cards from the GTX 1000 series cards in large part because the RTX 2000 series cards were still quite expensive. The latest Nvidia Ampere cards, on the other hand, are much more affordable, so many gamers who were on the fence are deciding now is the time to upgrade, which is increasing demand. There is also the problem of cryptominers buying cards wherever they can get them, even from the factories themselves, if some reports are to be believed, often using an army of online bots to crawl the web and suck up available stock. Until the current Ethereum bubble bursts and mining profitability dries up, whatever stock of next-gen graphics cards is likely to be put to use in digital crypto mines long before gamers have a chance to try and buy them.