AMD’s new offering: Our old technology is so good, you should keep using it

But for desktop gamers, AMD has a different offering. It’s a relaunch of three old The components come together with a big new promise: You won’t need to buy a new motherboard until 2030.

Today, AMD promises that it will continue to support its AM5 desktop motherboard socket with new Ryzen processors through 2029, which likely means you can keep upgrading to newer CPUs until the end of the decade without changing the board.

Even if you’re still using the older AM4 socket, you may have one last upgrade left: it’s a relaunch of the “10th Anniversary” edition of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate the 10th anniversary of that AM4 platform. That will be $349 on June 25.

And if you decide it’s the right time to switch to AMD or the AM5 socket, the company has a choice New old chip So also: the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D, likely a stripped-down version of the current 7800X3D. The largest chip costs between $380 and $450, although they can sometimes be found for $320. On paper, the 7700X3D looks a little slower:

Meanwhile, in the GPU space, AMD is finally bringing the previously China-exclusive Radeon RX 9070 GRE to other countries including the US, starting June 1 for $549.

That’s not exactly a convenient thing for PC gamers to hear, as $549 was supposed to be the starting price for the significantly more powerful RX 9070, not the shortened GRE version that RTX 5070 tracks.

AMD is making an interesting offer at a time when everything, Especially gamesit’s starting to feel expensive. Does he convince you?