AMD’s new innovation: our old technology is so good you just have to use it

But for desktop PC gamers, AMD has a different approach. It’s rebooting three times the old one components together with a big new promise: you won’t need to buy a new board until 2030.

Today, AMD is promising to continue supporting its socket AM5 desktop motherboards for new Ryzen processors until 2029, which means you can keep upgrading to new CPUs until the end of the decade without changing your motherboard.

Even if you’re still on the old AM4 socket, you can have one last upgrade: it’s also launching a “10th Anniversary” version of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate 10 years of the AM4 platform. This will be $349 on June 25th.

And if you think that now is the time to switch to AMD or AM5 socket, the company has a new old chip for this too: the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D, possibly the standard version of the existing 7800X3D. A beefier chip costs $380 to $450, but is sometimes available for $320. On paper, the 7700X3D looks slow:

Meanwhile in the GPU segment, AMD is finally bringing its old Chinese Radeon RX 9070 GRE to other countries including the US, starting June 1 for $549.

That’s not good news for PC gamers, because $549 should be the starting price for the more powerful RX 9070, not the stripped-down GRE model. follows the RTX 5070.

AMD is making an exciting announcement at a time when everything, especially sportsyou are starting to feel very expensive. Does it satisfy you?