According to a report from PowerGPU, AMD’s newest Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 CPUs and X570 chipset motherboards have a comparatively high rate of failure than their predecessors. PowerGPU tweeted that AMD’s Ryzen 5000 CPUs have very high failure rates and it increases on the more high-end CPU offerings.
In its report, PowerGPU states that they have observed a very high failure rate with the new AMD CPU and motherboard platform. AMD is having a tough time keeping up with the huge demand for its Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 3000 CPUs, both of which are based on TSMC’s 7nm process node.
The failure on the new AMD CPUs are still too high.
- AMD Ryzen 5950x x50 units 8 doa
- AMD Ryzen 5900x x50 units 4 doa
- AMD Ryzen 5800x x100 units 4 doa
- AMD Ryzen 5600x x120 units 3 doa
We had only 1 dead Intel CPU it was a 9700k in our time of business
Doa: Dead on arrival
— PowerGPU® (@PowerGPU)
In the tweet, PowerGPU described the number of failed units they received on arrival for different Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. PowerGPU reports that out of the 50 Ryzen 9 5950X units they had received, 8 CPUs were DOA (Dead on Arrival).
Comparing that to Intel, they report that they only received 1 Intel CPU that turned out to be DOA and that was a 9th Gen Core i7-9700K chip. Before the launch of the Ryzen 5000 series, the failure rate was 80% Intel and 20% AMD and they only had one CPU die on them in the past 2 years.
The issue also isn’t just specific to the CPUs, as even X570 boards are reportedly facing very high failure rates. PowerGPU reports that they are receiving at least 3-5 X570 & B550 motherboards every week which end up being DOA. It is yet to be figured out whether this is a production issue or something else.
The tweet has now been deleted from Power GPU’s account however it seems like AMD reached out to them and they are now testing out different CPUs and motherboard combos. We have attached their latest tweet below.
We just had a chat with AMD. We are going to work together testing out some CPUs and motherboards.
Thanks for reaching out @AMD
— PowerGPU® (@PowerGPU) February 15, 2021
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