Reported a few months ago, AMD is planning to make their Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 exclusive to OEMs. Listings now confirm that the CPUs are now available on select systems from OEMs.
AMD quiet launched the Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 non-X CPUs to OEM partners including the one pictured above from Alienware.
The Ryzen 9 5900 is a 12-core/24-thread CPU featuring a 3Ghz base clock and 4.7Ghz boost and is a 65W TDP chip. This is in contrast with the 105W of the Ryzen 9 5900X which is 700Mhz faster at its base clock and with a 4.8Ghz boost clock.
UserBenchmark results suggests that the Ryzen 9 5900 has only 5% less overall performance than the Ryzen 9 5900X despite the large TDP difference.
Chinese tray CPU vendors could eventually land these CPUs which could sell in much lower prices than retail X-CPUs. We’ll check with our sources to confirm availability.
Source: TechPowerUp
