If you had been planning on cancelling your restaurant reservation to face in line at Micro Center on Valentine’s Day in an effort to buy considered one of AMD’s new Ryzen 7000X3D CPU, it’s best to rethink.

After reviews started circulating that confirmed AMD’s web site itemizing February 14 as the provision date of its extremely anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D CPU, the corporate has needed to formally poured chilly water on the thought.

“As you know, today AMD.com briefly published a launch date for the Ryzen 7000X3D Series Desktop processors; however, that date is incorrect. We have not confirmed a launch date at this time. We will provide updates on the expected availability of these processors at a future date,” an organization spokesman stated in an e-mail to PCWorld on Wednesday afternoon.

The replace from AMD could also be dangerous for gearheads seeking to rating an X3D chip, however in all probability excellent news for relationships world wide. The unique report surfaced courtesy of Overclock3D.net, which noticed the brand new data on AMD.com. Soon after the preliminary report, AMD yanked the provision date and now has formally disavowed it as an error.

More disappointing to many, nevertheless, is the truth that AMD didn’t leak its personal value. Since the variant processors embrace AMD’s V-cache, the vertical die-stacking “special sauce” that provides the processors a gaming benefit, you possibly can count on a premium over the vanilla Ryzen 9 7900X and Ryzen 9 7950X. Those non-X3D CPUs have retail costs of $549 and $699, respectively, although road costs have seen vital reductions.

According to promotional benchmarks from AMD, the top-of-the-line 7950X3D can beat Intel’s finest Core i9 processor in each gaming and (due to that beneficiant 24-core structure) basic productiveness and media manufacturing duties. It is, briefly, a beast, and the cheaper 8- and 12-core variants ought to present related efficiency good points.

And no, standing in line at Micro Center shouldn’t be a good suggestion for a Valentine’s date.

Gordon Mah Ung contributed to this report