AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs could be a flop according to a new survey that’ll make difficult reading for Team Red

Previous Zen processor generations were met with much more positive first impressions

News By Darren Allan published 25 September 2024

There’s been some negative reaction to the launch of AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 chips – certain other controversies didn’t help, either – and a new survey has tried to dig deeper into the opinions of PC owners on the new Zen 5 silicon.

German tech site 3D Center carried out a survey of its readers to determine the broad reaction and first impressions of AMD’s initial clutch of Ryzen 9000 CPUs.

The poll had almost 1,000 respondents, so that’s a fairly small sample, but nonetheless not an insignificant slice of the opinions of the tech site’s readers – which veered more towards the negative than positive.

There were three batches of answers – positive, average, and negative – each of which had four options as the reason for the response (except the positive respondents, which had three reasons). In total, most respondents had an ‘average’ reaction to Ryzen 9000 – some 55% – with 21% responding positively, and 24% negatively.

So, the negative reactions just outweighed the positive, but only by a small amount.

Drilling down to the reasons folks gave for their reaction, in the average responses, the majority (23%) felt that Ryzen 9000 didn’t deserve a positive tick due to a lack of strong gaming performance. 19% marked the Zen 5 CPUs as average due to an overall lack of generational uplift for performance (not just gaming).

It was a similar story for those who opted for a negative reaction, with the main complaint in this case being the lack of overall performance (11%) followed by gaming performance (9%).

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