AMD's new Ryzen 9 7950X is on sale in China for $856, a week early

AMD's new flagship Ryzen 9 7950X "Zen 4" processor is already for sale in China, where you'll be paying a premium to get the new Zen 4 silicon a week ahead of launch.

If you're in China then you can jump onto Taobao's Goofish platform, which is a second-hand and black market website that we usually see Intel engineering sample CPUs being sold ahead of launch. AMD's new Ryzen 9 7950X "Zen 4" CPU is now the star of the show, available right now.

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AMD's new Ryzen 9 7950X "Zen 4" CPU in the flesh!

You're looking at 5999 RMB which works out to around $856 USD, which is a $157 premium on top of AMD's own $699 pricing on the Ryzen 9 7950X "Zen 4" CPU. The new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X offers 16 cores and 32 threads at up to 5.7GHz with 80MB of cache in total with a 170W TDP (230W PPT) for $699, slotting into a new AM5-based motherboard and waiting for its X670E chipset goodness.

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The new listings aren't just in China but also in France, where AMD's other Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" processors are found. This includes the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X, and Ryzen 5 7600X processors. We don't know how you're going to go with the warranty, or how the retailers acquired the Zen 4 processors themselves.

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The listings of AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X processors

As always be careful, but I wouldn't be buying from these types of sellers, we only have a few days left for the official Zen 4 launch. Even if you did buy one of the new Zen 4 processors, there's no X670E or X670 motherboards available just yet, so you might need to find one of those on a black market somewhere, too.