Amd’s New Pitch: Our Old Tech Is So Good You Should Just Keep Using It

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Computex 2026 is underway successful Taiwan, and we’re expecting each mode of flashy computers pinch jaw-dropping pricetags (or nary pricetags astatine all) as nan full manufacture navigates RAMageddon.

But for desktop PC gamers, AMD has a different pitch. It’s relaunching 3 old components alongside a large caller promise: you won’t request to bargain a caller motherboard until 2030.

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Today, AMD is promising it will support supporting its AM5 desktop motherboard socket pinch caller Ryzen processors done 2029, which apt intends you tin support upgrading to newer CPUs till nan extremity of nan decade without changing your board.

Even if you’re still connected nan older AM4 socket, you whitethorn person 1 past upgrade left: it’s relaunching a “10th Anniversary” version of nan Ryzen 7 5800X3D to observe nan 10th day of that AM4 platform. That’ll beryllium $349 connected June 25th.

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And if you determine now’s nan clip to move to AMD aliases nan AM5 socket, nan company’s sewage a new aged chip for that too: a $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D, apt a binned type of nan existing 7800X3D. The beefier spot costs $380 to $450, though tin occasionally beryllium recovered astatine $320. On paper, nan 7700X3D looks only somewhat slower:

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Again, this is aged tech: nan 7800X3D came retired successful 2023; its 9000-series successor came retired successful precocious 2024. But nan aged spot was plentifulness powerful, arsenic you tin spot successful my workfellow Tom Warren’s comparison reappraisal pinch nan 9950X3D, 9800X3D, and 7800X3D from 2025. (Check retired really overmuch little powerfulness nan 7800X3D utilized successful his chart, too.)

Meanwhile successful nan GPU realm, AMD’s yet bringing its formerly China-exclusive Radeon RX 9070 GRE to different countries including nan US, starting June 1st for $549.

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That’s not rather arsenic friends for PC gamers to hear, arsenic $549 was expected to beryllium nan starting value for nan notably much powerful RX 9070, not nan cut-down GRE type which trails nan RTX 5070.

But nan RX 9070 was ne'er broadly disposable astatine $549, despite what AMD claimed to america astatine nan time — it launched amidst a GPU shortage, hit $549 once, but nan value settled person to $599 aliases $620 erstwhile that shortage ended. So this would beryllium a spot cheaper.

AMD’s making an absorbing transportation astatine a clip that everything, especially gaming, is opening to consciousness excessively expensive. Does it person you?

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