One of AMD’s most popular gaming processors, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, is seemingly heading towards a shortage, as prices have jumped recently while availability is getting tighter.
A quick check on PC Part Picker shows an increasing trend in the 7800X3D’s prices in the past two months in the U.S., with prices on MemoryC starting at around $424 on August 1 and ending at more than $524 today — $100 up and a near 24% jump. Newegg’s prices for the chip also started a little over $381 and now sit at $419, an increase of around 10%. However, note that this number recently fell from a high of $449, meaning the 7800X3D’s price actually went up by 17% first, before settling to the current price.
We also searched Amazon for stocks of the popular gaming processor. However, our search for “7800X3D” only showed results for 7900X3D, 7900X, 5700X3D, 7700X, and 7950X3D. We were able to eventually find it by visiting the AMD storefront and then going to Processors > Ryzen 7000 Series. On that page, we saw the Ryzen 7 7800X3D listing, but it didn’t have ‘Add to Cart’ available, only ‘See options’.
When we click on See All Buying Options for the 7800X3D, all available listings, both used and new, demanded a premium for the chip. The most affordable price started at $530.99 for used and $548.90 for new — a massive jump from the $449 launch price. This increase in prices is indicative of constrained supplies of the chip in the U.S.
Discussions among enthusiasts in forums and on social media indicate that 7800X3D processors remain readily available in various European countries, including Poland, Germany, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. However, there is quite certainly a trend of increasing prices.
Given that there are no major global announcements or events that have directly affected AMD, this change in prices is driven either by a sudden increase in demand or a drop in supply. The previous is unlikely, especially as the 7800X3D isn’t exactly a new processor, having been launched over a year ago. So, it’s likely that the supply of the popular gaming chip is starting to drop globally.
We have no official guidance about what is happening, but this might be connected to the rumors that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will arrive in October. After all, if AMD is launching a new gaming chip, it would not want to have extra stocks of the older 7800X3D in its warehouses. If it wants to clear those out after the arrival of the Ryzen 9000-series X3D processor, then it will have to its price to move inventory.
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In light of the above observations, if you’re in the market for the 7800X3D, we recommend holding off on your purchase, especially with the record-high prices on the market. If the 9800X3D launches as predicted, you can expect prices for the 7800X3D to drop precipitously, saving you money on your PC build.
Jowi Morales
Contributing Writer
Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.
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Alvar "Miles" Udell CamelCamelCamel shows a fairly stable price around $400 for the 7900X3D since February, and the increase to $450 to me says they're increasing it so that when they cut it by $50 during Prime Big Deal Days in a couple of weeks it appears to be a bigger sale than it is. The 7800X3D going out of stock is to be expected for a more popular, older chip that is getting phased out for a newer generation. I also suspect AMD didn't want too many 7000 series X3D chips hanging around to give people a reason not to buy the 9000 series X3D, as the 5800X3D did for ages to the 7000 series X3D.
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jackt So will the zen5 x3d process be 3nm ? or maybe there will be another zen5 refresh ?
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DavidLejdar Uh-oh, possibly just a few weeks now. Might get me an AIO with it. TDP shouldn't be excessive, I suppose. But might as well switch the cooler when switching the CPU.
Alvar Miles Udell said:
.... I also suspect AMD didn't want too many 7000 series X3D chips hanging around to give people a reason not to buy the 9000 series X3D, as the 5800X3D did for ages to the 7000 series X3D.Well, in case of the AM4 socket, there still are many people out there with it. E.g. recently in the forum for Satisfactory, someone complained about stuff running slow, with a huge setup towards end-game. And they have like one of the first AM4 CPUs. So, a simple upgrade to 5800X3D would improve things for them, and cheaper to do just that, than upgrading MB and RAM as well. Whereas in my case, might as well go for 9x00X3D straight away.
jackt said:
So will the zen5 x3d process be 3nm ? or maybe there will be another zen5 refresh ?Reportedly, Zen 5c is with the 3nm process. All other with 4nm - which is still a step up from Zen 4 (current gen on the AM5 socket).
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DS426 To me, the fastest gaming CPU could actually command a higher price premium -- probably something towards $599 MSRP and still sell pretty well, even if that does push some users down to a 7600X3D or 5800X3D. Remember the days of Intel Extreme Edition CPU's? Yeah, crazy if we factor in inflation but back in the 2000's, enthusiasts could drop a cool $1000 USD on a CPU. Having a halo product that doesn't have a direct competitor means those prices can be commanded.
Call them "greedy Intel" but hey, they made money... not like in *cough cough* recent times, lol.
I'm just looking forward to seeing what other secret sauce changes AMD made to Ryzen 9x003D. It kind of sounds like these would actually be purpose-built, allocated CPU's rather than basically recycled/down-binned EPYC dies, but I could be wrong.
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jackt DavidLejdar said:
Reportedly, Zen 5c is with the 3nm process. All other with 4nm - which is still a step up from Zen 4 (current gen on the AM5 socket).ok tnx, so the x3d are zen5 ? or zen5c ?
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TheHerald DS426 said:
To me, the fastest gaming CPU could actually command a higher price premium -- probably something towards $599 MSRP and still sell pretty well, even if that does push some users down to a 7600X3D or 5800X3D. Remember the days of Intel Extreme Edition CPU's? Yeah, crazy if we factor in inflation but back in the 2000's, enthusiasts could drop a cool $1000 USD on a CPU. Having a halo product that doesn't have a direct competitor means those prices can be commanded.Call them "greedy Intel" but hey, they made money... not like in *cough cough* recent times, lol.
I'm just looking forward to seeing what other secret sauce changes AMD made to Ryzen 9x003D. It kind of sounds like these would actually be purpose-built, allocated CPU's rather than basically recycled/down-binned EPYC dies, but I could be wrong.
An extreme edition chip was the fastest in everything, that's why it commanded a premium. More cores, more cache higher clocks. The 7800x 3d is an 8 core chip that's slower than a 250$ i5 in both ST and MT performance, no enthusiast will touch it. Even at its current price, les alone at 599.
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DS426 TheHerald said:
An extreme edition chip was the fastest in everything, that's why it commanded a premium. More cores, more cache higher clocks. The 7800x 3d is an 8 core chip that's slower than a 250$ i5 in both ST and MT performance, no enthusiast will touch it. Even at its current price, les alone at 599.No enthusiast will touch it? Enthusiasts include gamers, don't they? Then again, I guess you're somewhat right in that enthusiasts might grab the 7950X3D since it's a little better all-arounder, especially if that cache can be used in applications outside of just gaming.
Yes, Intel EE and AMD X3D isn't an apples-to-apples comparison; I concur that not having a pure winner-at-everything CPU means we haven't seen those top-line prices come back. Things were simpler back then such that just having a chip with pretty much more of everything meant everything went faster.
AMD also had some good runs on the Athlon 64 FX series (prior to Bulldozer), e.g. I think I recall the FX-51 or FX-53 being right up there.
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TheHerald DS426 said:
Enthusiasts include gamers, don't they?No. There are gamers playing on switch, ps5, ps4, or even a phone. That's not an enthusiast.
DS426 said:
Then again, I guess you're somewhat right in that enthusiasts might grab the 7950X3D since it's a little better all-arounder, especially if that cache can be used in applications outside of just gaming.Indeed, 7950x 3d or 14900k.
You can't charge 599$ for the 7800x 3d cause even non enthusiasts will just grab the 7950x 3d instead.
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