New Ryzen processors are probably slow sellers – will AMD soon pull an ace out of its sleeve?

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Increasing the TDP should free up further performance capacities

The first two processors of the Zen 5 generation were released a few days ago. However, sales of the Ryzen 9 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X seem to be off to a rather slow start.

In detail:The German retailer Mindfactory always publishes information on the number of units sold on the respective product page.

  • TheRyzen 7 9700Xhas only sold just over 30 CPUs so far; theRyzen 5 9600Xhas sold even fewer with just over 20 chips.
  • Mindfactory is not an isolated case: On Amazon, the Ryzen 5 9600X is just barely in the current top 40 most popular CPUs.

It is therefore reasonable to assume that the Ryzen 9000 generation is more of a shelf warmer than a bestseller

In particular, the in-house X3D series seems to be much more popular in this metric.

BIOS update for more TDP

To counteract this, AMD is probably planning a new BIOS update that will raise the TDP of the processors from 65 to 105 watts.

At least this is what the leaker chi11leddog claims on X/Twitter. According to this, the AGESA 1.2.0.1a Patch A is in progress

This would bring the Ryzen 9 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X back to the TDP level of their respective predecessors.

  • With the freed-up power, AMD would enable higher clock rates, which in turn would allow a greater performance gap to the Zen 4 generation.
  • Our tests on the two AMD CPUs have also shown that AMD is to some extent standing in its own way, at least with the current values.

Other portals such asComputerBasealso see potential for a better rating of the processors with an increase in power consumption.

If the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X is raised to the same TDP/PPT level as the 7700X via BIOS settings, it performs much better.

Because it now clearly beats its predecessor everywhere and remains cooler, but then the consumption is also the same. AMD decided to letually set other priorities.

ComputerBase review of the Ryzen 7 9700X

The TDP of 65 watts could, however, be used for non-X variants of the respective processors

Officially, however, AMD has not yet confirmed any of this. It could therefore be that the TDP of 65 watts will also remain for the X variants.