Wow, You Can Actually Buy a Ryzen 5000 CPU (Although It's the 5800X)

UPDATE: After we published our article, Newegg began selling more Ryzen 5600X processors at the normal $299 pricing, and the stock has remained available for at least a few hours. (Earlier in the day, Newegg had only made the CPU available through a third-party retailer that was selling the chip at $369.) You can also buy the Ryzen 5600X from Amazon. But the retailer says it won't actually ship the product to customers until mid-April.

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It took four months, but if you try to buy an AMD Ryzen 5000 CPU today, you might find one actually in stock. 

Ever since November’s launch, the chips have been selling out at all the major retailers within minutes. However, we noticed the supplies for one chip in the processor line—the Ryzen 7 5800X—are now consistently available on Amazon and Newegg. 

Go to either retailer, and you can buy them for the normal retail price of $449. Amazon says it’ll also ship the product soon within two days. 

We don’t know how long supplies will last. But today marks the first time we’ve done a spot check and seen a Ryzen 5000 CPU available on both sites for hours, if not days. (You can also find the chip at some Best Buy stores, depending where you live.)

To track the Ryzen 5000 availability, we’ve been watching the Reddit forum /r/buildapcsales, where users routinely post about where the CPUs are in stock. There, users have also been noticing the 5800X processor’s supplies have been improving. “Nature is healing,” joked one user. “Hope the other chips follow this trend.” 

We reached out to AMD, but the company isn’t elaborating on the supply situation beyond a standard PR statement. “We shipped a significant volume of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs in advance of launch. Despite this, the demand is incredibly high. We are working closely with global etail and retail partners and are shipping out additional stock on a daily basis,” the company said in an email. 

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Unfortunately, the 5800X may be the most unpopular chip in the Ryzen 5000 line due to its $449 price. The 8-core, 16-thread chip costs $50 more than its direct predecessors, the 3800X and 3800XT. Still, we rank the 5800X as one of the best consumer CPUs on the market that can match or beat Intel’s competing processors in gaming and content creation. 

If you’re hoping to snag another chip in the Ryzen 5000 series, we recommend you try an online product inventory tracker, which can instantly alert you when a retailer has the CPU in stock.