News AMD's new consumer CPUs reportedly suffer a slight delay — Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point launch seemingly pushed to July 28

[Admin]

Two reputable hardware leakers claim that AMD has allegedly pushed the Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point) launch to July 28, a day behind the Ryzen 9000 debut.

AMD's new consumer CPUs reportedly suffer a slight delay — Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point launch seemingly pushed to July 28 : Read more

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

"AMD seems to have the upper hand in both cases since its Zen 5 chips will be on the market first. Particularly, Granite Ridge may garner more attention due to Intel's ongoing instability issues on the 13th Raptor Lake and 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh Core i9 chips. Therefore, cautious buyers may consider what Granite Ridge offers for their next upgrade before contemplating Arrow Lake."

That's actually an important point you have raised.

And it is of concern as well, because recently as per a report from "ZDNet Korea", which is somehow related, Intel's 13th & 14th Gen CPU issues are causing headaches for motherboard vendors/manufacturers, as they fear that these current issues might as well affect Arrow Lake's "launch schedule" as well.

The performance improvement of Intel's 14th generation core processor was not significant, and stability issues arose after mid-April, leading consumers to choose AMD Ryzen processors instead of Intel processors. This trend is expected to grow further when the Ryzen 9000 series processors with the new architecture are released in July.

If the stability issue is not clearly resolved, consumer distrust will increase, and sales of ‘Arrow Lake,’ a new processor for desktop PCs that Intel plans to release in the fourth quarter, will decrease.

- via ZDNet Korea

So, AMD might have a gap to fill in the markets for now, as the report further suggests that Team Red is seeing higher popularity in the retail sector, exceeding 55% in sales.

 

[DS426]

Definitely seems like better timing for AMD than Intel as although that latter will have new product out by the holiday season, AMD will have had several more months to saturate shelves and warehouses; it definitely seems like a great marketshare increasing opportunity. That and indeed Intel's ongoing Raptor Lake instability issue is embarrassing and has actually kind of burned their board partners.

Wonder if the two week "delay" is due to them now anticipating even more demand than previously? That's my first line of speculation on this -- that they want to stock the shelves and e-shelves more before launch day.

 

[Jagar123]

Wonder if the two week "delay" is due to them now anticipating even more demand than previously? That's my first line of speculation on this -- that they want to stock the shelves and e-shelves more before launch day.

I'm also curious if they are pushing the mobile and desktop launches together to not give an indication of performance numbers for the desktop parts. While the mobile and desktop parts have different TDP and other characteristics, they are both based on Zen 5 and people could go buck wild predicting the performance of the desktop parts. Maybe they want big sales of both parts before reviews start hitting?

 

[usertests]

My guess is that they want a little more time to work on drivers.

Strix Point has a bunch of changes. Larger NPU, 16 CUs iGPU after 2 gens of 12 CUs, first appearance of RDNA3.5 which will likely only be in APUs. But the big one is dual-CCX, 4 big and 8 small separated with different amounts of L3 cache, after 3 gens of 8 cores (with Renoir being the last to have dual-CCX). They're going to want to leave a good first impression.

 

[KnightShadey]

Annoying, since already waiting ⏳ , but OK if the delay is mild just to get it right/clean at launch.

A 3rd potential, and way more annoying possible reason, after stability/drivers and volume, is if AMD is waiting for M$ to provide CoPilot+ certification for launch because their marketing material centered on that, if that's the case I'm going to be MysteryMen level of Mr Furious ! 🤬

Any more of a delay and I will think it's just typical AMD blowing another opportunity to strike while they are hot (which has been the default).

Hopefully it's not to build stock, because the avg person doesn't even know this is coming, so get it to enthusiasts & business channel's hands ASAFP (although corporate does like stability, we also love samples early to test), then worry about avg Best Buy(er) volume once that initial demand is met. Delays to those first two categories affect perception of ability of AMD to follow-through which also creates noise that affects investor confidence regarding their ability to capitalize on the mobile market opportunity given to them on a silver platter.

Although, of course, could be some clusterflop flaw, which I F'in 😡 hope not , after waiting and only getting a couple of 7945HX+4080/4090 (which are now harder to come by) instead of a dozen a month or two ago, so now kinda hard to turn back or wait for Halo. SOOoo hope not! 🤞

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Over at the AIB board channel forums, ASUS has strongly debunked and refuted this rumor/claim. As per an official ASUS rep some of their Laptop Models are indeed landing up on 15th of JULY 2024 !

So approach any Tweet you read online cautiously.

 

[TechyIT223]

Does it really matter for a small few weeks delay or so ?? I mean it's not the end of the world though...

🤣🤔

 

[TerryLaze]

That's actually an important point you have raised.

And it is of concern as well, because recently as per a report from "ZDNet Korea", which is somehow related, Intel's 13th & 14th Gen CPU issues are causing headaches for motherboard vendors/manufacturers, as they fear that these current issues might as well affect Arrow Lake's "launch schedule" as well.

Did AMD ever actually redesign the exploding IO die?!
Because crashing* is still many times better than exploding* ...

* that you can avoid by lowering settings

 

[usertests]

Over at the AIB board channel forums, ASUS has strongly debunked and refuted this rumor/claim. As per an official ASUS rep some of their Laptop Models are indeed landing up on 15th of JULY 2024 !

So approach any Tweet you read online cautiously.

Wccf doubling down, citing Best Buy's website:

First AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" Laptops Rescheduled For Launch on 28th July

AMD's "Ryzen AI 300" processors are expected to hit the markets a bit later than expected, as retailers push the launch date to 28 July.

wccftech.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1806854930570862910

View: https://x.com/hms1193/status/1806854930570862910

Does it really matter for a small few weeks delay or so ?? I mean it's not the end of the world though...

🤣🤔

Nope it's OK. Even a "few" weeks would be worse than what it is: TWO weeks.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Yes, I have already noticed that. I suppose some Laptop models will still come out on 15th, at least based on the claim made by ASUS rep. But let's wait for see how this pans out.

 

[KnightShadey]

Does it really matter for a small few weeks delay or so ?? I mean it's not the end of the world though...

🤣🤔

While that's true, as mentioned before, unfortunately I'm sitting on budget headroom from 2023 that I requested/was granted a 6mth extension until Sept. Once I know how much overhead I have for my 2024 budget, I will spend in Dec/Jan where we can maximize value on sales, and after having spent some on our annual trip to CES. 🤩

Delay now means delay in testing the first one or two, and then that might knock-on effect, and I don't want to submit another request for extension. Not only does it make us look bad at planning/budgeting (which is quite the opposite obviously), but I hate HATE having to defend these requests to bean-counters that don't understand delays in production or transformational releases just on the horizon, and buying a couple of better fit tools rather than spending it all on what we already have lots of. Penny-pinchers SUCK IMO.

That's why I'm slightly more sensitive to it than most, especially as I expected more deep dives, as well as concrete pricing/guidance at Computex. There 's so much we don't know right now it's just getting me excited and frustrated at the same time.

Also, I wanna open my presents on Christmas Eve, not New Years !! 😉🤪

 

[KnightShadey]

Wccf doubling down, citing Best Buy's website:https://x.com/hms1193/status/1806854930570862910

Ugh! 🙇🏻‍♂️ Sad Panda is SAD.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

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AMD Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs To Feature Full Overclocking Support In Addition To New 3D V-Cache Features.​

Unofficial info so apply some SALT with chili pepper as well ! =🙄 =🤐

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs To Feature Full Overclocking Support In Addition To New 3D V-Cache Features

AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs will feature full overclocking support at launch, marking a first for the 3D V-Cache chips.

wccftech.com

""With the next generation, AMD has teased some cool new features for the Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs but we have managed to learn that among those features is full support for OC.

Yes, that's right, it's not just PBO or CO tuning, enthusiasts on the AM5 platform will get full overclocking support with the next-gen 3D V-Cache CPUs.

This suggests that AMD has fine-tuned the 3D V-Cache design for its chips, allowing users to overclock them as they see fit. There might still be a few checks in place to safeguard the fragile 3D stacks placed on top of each Zen 5 CCD but having manual OC capabilities is going to attract a lot of enthusiast overclockers to hop on the 3D V-Cache scene.""