According to AMD product pages, the upcoming 7950X3D and 7800X3D are Unlocked for Overclocking.

Maybe so. But will end user be able to do this for their own applications that were not checked and tested by this magical person who is going to test every application in existence?

 

pricing looks pretty good , thought it would be more expensive.

obviously the user can do something about this themselves even if amd doesn't provide an easy switch, as simple as setting core affinity.

I gonna go out on a limb and say that 99.9% of users will not notice , since the performance of zen4 is already really good. real world professional workloads are heavily multithreaded. so what does that leave , maybe the lame mp3 encoder , spreadsheets, word processors? obscure games might suffer, but you'll probably have more than sufficient performance anyway.

Does this user, that mostly uses applications not on the whitelist, and is adversely effected by a performance regression, even exist? I'm guessing there is maybe 5 people world wide that could hypothetically purchase this product and be unsatisfied with it specifically for this reason.