Friday, June 21st 2019
Intel to Cut Prices of its Desktop Processors by 15% in Response to Ryzen 3000
Intel is embattled in the client-segment desktop processor business, with AMD's imminent launch of its 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors. Intel's 9th generation Core processors may lose their competitiveness to AMD's offerings, and are expected to get relieved by the company's "Ice Lake" desktop processors only in 2020. Until then, Intel will market its processors through price-cuts, promotions, bundles, and focusing on their gaming prowess. The company will refresh its HEDT (high-end desktop) processor lineup some time in Q3-2019. According to Taiwan-based industry observer DigiTimes citing sources in the motherboard industry, Intel's immediate response to 3rd generation Ryzen will be a series of price-cuts to products in its client-segment DIY retail channel.
According to these sources, prices of 9th generation Core processors could be cut by a minimum of 10 percent, and a maximum of 15 percent, varying by SKUs. This could see prices of popular gaming/enthusiast SKUs such as the Core i9-9900K, the i7-9700K, and the i5-9600K, drop by anywhere between $25 to $75. AMD is launching the Ryzen 9 3900X to compete with the i9-9900K, the Ryzen 7 3800X to compete with the i7-9700K, and the Ryzen 5 3600X to take on the i5-9600K. The three SKUs, according to AMD's internal testing, match the Intel chips at gaming, and beat them at content-creation tasks. At the heart of 3rd generation Ryzen processors is AMD's new Zen 2 microarchitecture, which brings significant IPC gains. AMD is also increasing core-counts on its mainstream desktop platform with the introduction of the Ryzen 9 family of 12-core and 16-core processors in the AM4 package.
Source:
DigiTimes
According to these sources, prices of 9th generation Core processors could be cut by a minimum of 10 percent, and a maximum of 15 percent, varying by SKUs. This could see prices of popular gaming/enthusiast SKUs such as the Core i9-9900K, the i7-9700K, and the i5-9600K, drop by anywhere between $25 to $75. AMD is launching the Ryzen 9 3900X to compete with the i9-9900K, the Ryzen 7 3800X to compete with the i7-9700K, and the Ryzen 5 3600X to take on the i5-9600K. The three SKUs, according to AMD's internal testing, match the Intel chips at gaming, and beat them at content-creation tasks. At the heart of 3rd generation Ryzen processors is AMD's new Zen 2 microarchitecture, which brings significant IPC gains. AMD is also increasing core-counts on its mainstream desktop platform with the introduction of the Ryzen 9 family of 12-core and 16-core processors in the AM4 package.
176 Comments on Intel to Cut Prices of its Desktop Processors by 15% in Response to Ryzen 3000
Just look at the leaked prices of the New 64C EPYCs :-).
I agree it's a bold claim but none the less GPU bottleneck Is what it is.
My Fx lives on, years after I bought it but not in my handds unfortunately.
I asked for a proof for your wild claim fx will run 4k as well as 9900k,got a bunch of insults in response.typical.
of course if fx can't deliver 60 fps in every game it won't do that at 4K.what is so difficult for you to understand.
At 4k a cpu doesnt make nearly as much of a difference as 2560x1440 or 1080p. That said...its still putting a glass ceiling on a GPU. If it hits 60 fps, great. That doesnt mean it's still not holding things back which is not optimal. If you are running 4k you have AT LEAST at 1080ti or 2080/2080ti which the fx chokes on at any res.
Fx was a turd when it was released and is now a dried out cow patty. Sandybridge can still beat it, lol, and we know it lacks in CPU horsepower. :)
You also pick and choose what to reply to so whatever.
first of all,you can never prove what the actual number of people is.you say it's 98%,I say it's 50%,neither of us knows what the number is.Plus it's irrelevant to the point I was making.I'm a high refresh user myself,what I'm writing concerns me.
and second of all making a general assumption that 1440p is the point where the gpu starts to matter almost exclusively is either too general or just plain wrong.I just gave youi an example - running 1440p but not at ultra.I hardly ever run ultra preset if I can't hit my desired framerate.
no offence taken about "brand snob",I could call you the same thing since all you ever do is defend amd with wild,unsubstantiated claims.
every page of every cpu review is constructed in such a way that a cpu is tested using just about the heaviest scenario.that concerns gaming as much as every other ulitity/productivity test.a home/gaming user like me will run into cpu bottlenecks in gaming much,much more often thatn they will in any other part of a full review.
His claim was not that bold. FX CPU's are viable for gaming at 4k if you have the GPU to push that res and you tweak your game settings a bit.
just the first one says "980ti". please,you've embarassed yourself enough.
the third one is not even a comparison,it's just running in-game benchmarks on fx.and it says 39 min. fps in rotr.
the context was not "4k gaming on fx",of course not.
it was 9900k vs fx at 4K,and of course using a 980Ti is a scenario that one may throw away instantly,980Ti is like 1660Ti now.
We could say I have a golden sample but then we go on ocnet to the 9700k owners lounge and realize most are doing 5ghz with 1,3 to 1,35.
Talking about non sense, you the one spreading it on this forum everyday. You even said you added me to the ignore list but there you are.
9700k is easy to cool, lack of HT makes it easy to reach clock speeds with less voltage. Deal with it.
you understand why me and Vayra are find it hard now?
this is not even 4.9ghz.
I'm done here.
You can be on denial or damage control if you want bud. It is what it is.
quite the contrary,most need 1.3v or more.
Yawn
EDIT point taken tatty
One person suggested pm/dm's but nope, keep going on right here with all the whining, jeez.
I get a page of bullshit off topic , this is an Intel topic you started mentioning amd, I replied to your bullshit
"R2700X is only good for rendering" comment for a somehow prooveable 90% of people implied by him and you.
Your misleading with bullshit while trolling via Google, Im on a phone and would rather be ON topic.
Your a high Hz squed perspective gamer \2% and you think you represent the people, divisional delusional bs.
To get on topic; that is the exact reason Intel can keep hold of that PCMR gaming fortress, and its why Ryzen 3 is hype material; a major clock bump is in the cards.
Even AMD does not deny that they need to up the gaming perf!
But I am beating a dead horse.
also,you may wanna read the thread if you think I mentioned amd first.the friggin title is "response to ryzen 3000",I wonder what brand that is.
and about that 98%,I already told you,no one knows how much it is,and that includes you.can you agree that high refresh gaming is a thing and it's quite popular or are you gonna deny that too?
Plus I don't know about the rules,but isn't calling my posts "trolling" constantly a form of trolling too? How can you expect me to even respond to your posts coherently if in every one of them you include words like "trolling" ?