Apparently AMD wants to prevent possible bottlenecks in the run-up to the start of sales of the new processors and graphics cards – or at least they want to try this. A document sent to the partners contains specific guidelines for the sale of the Ryzen 5000 processors based on the Zen 3 architecture and the Radeon RX – 6000 – Graphics cards based on the Navi-2 architecture.

According to AMD, the launch should be like this “smoothly and successfully” as possible. This primarily relates to the sale or the associated processes – like an inventory sold out in seconds.

The measures proposed by AMD include an automatic detection of bots. In addition to automatic mechanisms, other measures, such as various CAPTCHA implementations, should help. The number of pieces per order should be limited. One graphics card or one processor per customer / purchase with the same name, e-mail and / or address.

If a type of reservation is offered, a queue should be set up. This should be processed sequentially. If a product is no longer available, a notification system should be offered. At the start, the shops should process the orders manually in order to be able to validate them better. In the reseller segment (B2B) there will also be a limit in the first three weeks after the start of sales, from which end customers should benefit, as they should primarily be supplied will take hold remains to be seen. The first four Ryzen 5000 models will be available from November 5th. It is difficult to assess whether there will be bottlenecks here as well. The graphics cards appear