People need to stop comparing to Intel's HEDT line, as that was always an irrelevant product for 99.5% of users and compare instead to AM4 and 1151 offerings.
I can't help but wonder how supply constrained AMD is going to be, offering new CPU's and GPU's at the same time, hence why their prices are much higher than many had hoped for.
They are basically bringing TR4 to AM4 to this, so AM4 is now as far reaching into stratospheric HEDT. 1800/1800x and 2700/2700x was already HEDT. Now it is beyond HEDT. 32 threads and you can run these with one command line run these as server loads with insane perf/watt.
The prices have surprised me on the low side. I don't think you can say they've disappointed on the high side. Those few that were actually influenced by the totally unrealistic fanfiction AdoredTV clickbat scam, yes, I suppose they were destined for dramatic disappointment. Should we blame AMD for that??!
So prices on a number of times undershot my expectations:
$110 3200g 3.6-4.0 4c/4t 8CU ryzen 3
$125 3300g 3.3-3.7 4c/8t 8CU ryzen 3
$160 3400g 3.7-4.2 4c/8t 11CU ryzen 5
TBA
$210 6c 3600 4.0-4.4 6c/12t 7nm ryzen 7
$250 6c 3700 4.2-4.7 6c/12t 7nm ryzen 7
$280 8c 3800 4.0-4.6 8c/16t 7nm ryzen 7
$340 8c 3800x 4.3-4.7 8c/16t 7nm ryzen 7
$400 12c 3910 4.0 -4.6 12c/24t 7nm ryzen 9
$500 12c 3920x 4.2-4.8 12c/24t 7nm ryzen 9
TBA
TBA = Aug-Nov launches and releases:
$140 8c 3385x 3.4-4.1 8c/8t 12nm ryzen 3
$150 6c 3565 3.5-4.0 6c/12t 12nm ryzen 5
$160 8c 3585 3.0-4.0 8c/16t 12nm ryzen 7
$145 4c 3500 3.8-4.1 4c/8t 7nm ryzen 5
$175 4c 3500x 4.0-4.4 4c/8t 7nm ryzen 5
$600 16c 3950 3.8-4.5 16c/32t 7nm ryzen 9
$750 16c 3960x 4.1-4.7 16c/32t 7nm ryzen 9
The 3200g+3400g beat on freq and prices ($99, $149).
The 6c low bin ($199) and medium high bin ($249) met expectation and prices.
8c overshot prices a bit and I suspect AMD marketing is involved in this; particularly the 3800x seems to me lower binning than 3700x but run at maximum wattage. So if you consider 3700x as 8c high bin it met my expectations, while 3800x is a non-sequitor conjured up by marketing; I believe those street prices of 3800x should come down to 3700x level super fast.
12c elite bin is right on with price prediction while the 12c low bin is a no-show.
16c elite bin is right on with price prediction and beat timing expectation by months.
And yes I was totally surprised like most with the wider pipeline (3AGU) and overestimated freqs (which the higher IPC more than make up for).