Thursday, June 1st 2017
AMD Trims Prices of the Ryzen 7 1700 and 1700X
AMD recently cut the price of its current flagship desktop processor Ryzen 7 1800X from its USD $499 launch price to $469. At the time, it left prices of the Ryzen 7 1700 and Ryzen 7 1700X untouched. It looks like the two received small price-cuts as well. The Ryzen 7 1700X is now priced at $349 in leading online stores, down from its launch price of $399. The Ryzen 7 1700 (non-X), on the other hand, is now selling for $319, down from its launch price of $329. The two cuts may seem minor, but could help AMD turn up the heat against Intel's Core i7-7700K and its upcoming "Kaby Lake-X" Core i7-7740X and i5-7640X.
Based on the 14 nm "Summit Ridge" silicon, the Ryzen 7 1700 and 1700X are eight-core processors. The 1700 ships with clock speeds of 3.00 GHz, with 3.70 GHz boost, while the 1700X ships with higher 3.40 GHz clocks, with 3.80 GHz boost, and XFR, which adds a further 200 MHz to the boost clock. The Ryzen 7 1700 includes an AMD Wraith Spire RGB cooling solution, while the 1700X lacks a stock cooling solution.
Update 03/06: AMD reached out to us and commented that this is not an official price-change. It could be implemented by local retailers or distributors.
Based on the 14 nm "Summit Ridge" silicon, the Ryzen 7 1700 and 1700X are eight-core processors. The 1700 ships with clock speeds of 3.00 GHz, with 3.70 GHz boost, while the 1700X ships with higher 3.40 GHz clocks, with 3.80 GHz boost, and XFR, which adds a further 200 MHz to the boost clock. The Ryzen 7 1700 includes an AMD Wraith Spire RGB cooling solution, while the 1700X lacks a stock cooling solution.
37 Comments on AMD Trims Prices of the Ryzen 7 1700 and 1700X
Exec "Cut the 1800X by 30$ and the 1700X by 50$, it was way off our estimations"
Sales Manager " What about the plain 1700? it'll only be 20$ cheaper than the 1700X"
Exec "Dang, that one's selling well...Meh just lower it by 10$ to give some room"
Worstation at work... total cost of parts... $800... with a 1TB ssd... that was impossible 4 months ago.
Man, careful, they're gonna start sweeping the conference room for bugs if they see that.
I wish Intel would bring back a 5775C type variant with the gobs of cache... Would be awesome to have 8/16 with 256MB ED RAM
The R7 1700 does have XFR. It has half what X CPU has, so +50MHz. X CPU is +100MHz.
Being competitive is what sells. Realistically, 99% of people dont care about number of cores as long as it does what they need it to do.
A couple of things to keep in mind, it's GHz vs cores & then the Intel brand name that sells. In other words, people who're familiar with AMD (I know enigneers who did't hear of AMD until after they joined the workforce) look at the (competitive) clock speeds & the core count. As someone else said above, the DIY market is on the uptick partially because we have more cores on sale in the mainstream arena. The prebuilts are continually going down, that trend will not change IMO.
Then suddenly, zen comes out, is competitive core for core, and suddenly boom! sales increase. If it were due to moar coars, then the FX line wouldnt have bombed so abysmally.
The best selling DIY parts were 4 core i7 and i5 parts, not 6 core i7s, and not 8 core FX units. It's performance, not core count, that sells. Look at the steam hardware survey. 2-4 cores makes up 90+% of CPUs. 49% 4 cores, 45% dual cores, 4.25% more than 4 cores. There is 0 evidence that moar coars sells for anything but a niche market.
If you have evidence to the contrary, I would love to hear it. Sales numbers, shipments, ece.
Curious how a Ryzen could cost more than an i5 based sysetem when the motherboards are generally cheaper.