With less than a week to go before the scheduled July 31 launch, AMD announced that the Ryzen 9000 processor would be delayed just as reviewers around the world complained about the delay in receiving test samples.
In the initial production unit shipped to a partner, AMD identified products that did not meet all of AMD's quality expectations. AMD has decided to replace the initial production units that have already been sent to the channel partners with new ones. At the same time, to ensure that no problematic CPUs reach consumers, the retail availability of AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors will be delayed for a short time: the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X with single CCD will be available on August 8, and the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X with dual CCD will be available on August 15.
AMD said the issue was caused by a flaw in the packaging and testing process, and that the first CPUs that had already been distributed to channel partners would be recalled and re-inspected. Since there are no defects at the chip architecture level, AMD can solve potential quality issues in the short term without affecting the user experience.
Intel will launch a microcode update next month to address the stability issues of the 13th and 14th Gen Cores, and some gamers are worried that updating the microcode will have a new negative impact on the performance of these processors. If the timing is right, the Ryzen 9000 series processor review will be able to compare with the 14th Gen Core after the updated microcode.