Ryzen Release Thread

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https://www.extremetech.com/computing/32...sual-rates

A report has been going around online that AMD CPUs are suffering much higher than normal failure rates after PC builder PowerGPU shared an alarming tweet. That tweet, which has since been deleted, claimed that the company had received 19 dead Ryzen 5000 CPUs in a lot of 320, with 3-5 failing AMD motherboards dropping into its lap every single week. 5950X failure rates, specifically, reached up to 16 percent.

CPUs, generally speaking, do not fail. It’s not unknown for a CPU to die or show up dead, but a 6-16 percent failure rate would be far higher than expected. Multiple sites have dug into this issue, including PCWorld and PCMag. Currently, the bulk of the evidence suggests AMD CPUs aren’t failing in higher-than-expected numbers, though there’s some nuance to the data.
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AMD and Intel do not always guarantee that a given RAM clock can be maintained with fully loaded motherboards, which means the vendor may be setting a different bar for pass/fail than Intel or AMD would. There’s nothing wrong with that, especially for a high-performance vendor, but it does limit how much we can glean from this test information. Other vendors PCWorld spoke to reported no problems, with equal return rates between AMD and Intel CPUs.

ExtremeTech has spoken with a US boutique vendor and confirmed that it had seen no problems with AMD versus Intel return rates. Our own test samples continue to perform perfectly, with no issues. This is not to claim that PowerGPU was deliberately inaccurate in its own tweet — AMD is working with the company now to identify what may be going on — but its experience does not appear reflective of the wider market. If that changes, or if AMD releases any information suggesting a genuine problem, we’ll cover it.