AMD Ryzen 5000 was the 'fastest-selling CPU launch' for one UK retailer

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Definitely not a paper launch, then.

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For all the moaning about Zen 3 CPUs being sold out everywhere, it seems AMD really did ship the ‘tons’ of units claimed by its chief architect of gaming solutions and marketing, Frank Azor.

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“Demand was extremely high and the launch stock we had sold through extremely quickly, making it the fastest-selling CPU launch we have ever seen,” wrote Scan’s anonymous copywriter. “This was echoed across all of the launch retailers.”

Given that Ryzen 5000 chips indeed seem to be sold out everywhere, and that multiple retailers have been celebrating the launch, such as German store Mindfactory, which dropped any pretence of Teutonic detachment to call it the best CPU launch “EVER, EVER, EVER” (at least there wasn’t an exclamation mark), we feel confident in declaring this a real, rather than paper, CPU launch.

“We are assured by AMD that stock coming through for the new CPUs will be significant, so the wait time for current pre-orders should not be long,” continued Scan, while Azor posted about the “strong effort” the company had made to avoid stock being bought up by bots.

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Ian Evenden
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Ian Evenden has been doing this for far too long and should know better. The first issue of PC Gamer he read was probably issue 15, though it's a bit hazy, and there's nothing he doesn't know about tweaking interrupt requests for running Syndicate. He's worked for PC Format, Maximum PC, Edge, Creative Bloq, Gamesmaster, and anyone who'll have him. In his spare time he grows vegetables of prodigious size.