- AMD Ryzen 9850X3D packages spotted in China
- They include the new CPU with 32 GB of DDR5 RAM and a cooler
- This could be a way to give PC manufacturers a discount on the price of memory, and it could be a plan that AMD brings to other regions with any luck.
AMD might have a plan to address the pain of component price increases, particularly the skyrocketing cost of RAM, and that is to sell bundles with its impending new Ryzen
Tom’s Hardware highlighted a post on Uniko’s Hardware’s X showing a package that AMD is supposedly launching in China, consisting of a processor plus a cooler and system RAM.
What buyers get in this package is the recently revealed Ryzen 9850X3D CPU, which is about to go on sale, and it looks like a great addition to AMD’s gaming lineup, along with a Cooler Master cooler for this chip and 32GB of V-Color memory (a pair of 16GB DDR5 memory to be precise).
We don’t have prices yet, just a photo of this package as you can see in the post above. What’s interesting here, however, is that it appears to be an official collaboration between AMD and V-Color alongside Cooler Master, rather than a retailer simply creating its own packaging, hence the logos on the box.
There is another telling difference in that the motherboard is not included here. Normally, you’d get a CPU and memory plus a motherboard in one box, but here the latter is replaced by said cooler.
Analysis: a hopeful sign in a deeply pessimistic market
Presumably the motherboard has been dispensed with to keep the cost down, as obviously a cooler included in its place will ensure a lower overall price (while still making sense as a partner for a high-end gaming CPU). And the main goal of this package is, of course, to provide DDR5 RAM at a (relatively) acceptable price in addition to powering AMD’s new processor.
Of course, the V-Color DDR5 RAM will likely be made up of affordable 16GB memory cards, so there won’t be any fast, high-end RAM here (as that would defeat the purpose of an affordable package). As Uniko noted, it’s likely DDR5-4800 memory (meaning it runs at a speed of 4800MT/s, which is the slowest performance for DDR5).
As Tom points out, the important thing in that regard is that AMD has been busy making it clear that the Ryzen 9850X3D doesn’t need fast RAM. In fact, there’s barely any difference in performance between the DDR5-4800 RAM and the faster DDR5-6000 with the 9850X3D, with less than a 1% difference in frame rates (averaged over 30 games; see slide above, courtesy of VideoCardz).
In other words, whatever DDR5 RAM you’re using won’t make any noticeable difference to the Ryzen 9850X3D. This is true of
This is all well and good, but will these packages arrive outside of Asia? That’s the key question here: this and exactly where AMD could propose pricing. Regarding this last point, if the package does not represent considerable savings in the separate parts, it would not make much sense.
As for whether the US, Europe, or anywhere else will see Ryzen 9850X3D plus RAM packs, we obviously don’t know. But the fact that this is happening in China is certainly an indication that AMD is considering strategies to keep RAM prices low for PC makers (since this is an official collaboration, as noted), so I don’t see any reason why that strategy wouldn’t apply to the global market as a whole. Well, except for the supply concerns, of course, but this is at least a hopeful sign that similar packages could be in the works.
Meanwhile, standalone DDR5 RAM is still ridiculously priced, even if it’s discounted as we saw yesterday.
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