Wednesday, October 14th 2020
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Rumored to Launch Early 2021 for 220 USD
AMD recently announced their first Ryzen 5000 series chips catering to the high-end market. AMD announced the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, and Ryzen 9 5900X with the bold claim of gaming supremacy. These chips came with price increases across the board over their predecessors being priced at 299 USD for the Ryzen 5 5600X, 449 USD for the Ryzen 7 5800X, and 549 USD for the 5900X. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 which is expected to offer the best price to performance was not announced at the event to the disappointment of many wanting to upgrade their Ryzen systems.
According to a recent report AMD plans to release the Ryzen 5 5600 in early 2021 for 220 USD. This represents an 80 USD price cut over the Ryzen 5 5600X and a 20 USD price increase over the Ryzen 5 3600. This launch will likely coincide with BIOS updates for 400 series motherboards to support Ryzen 5000 chips. If AMD can match the performance of Intel's i5-10600K with the Ryzen 5 5600 they will likely have a very impressive value chip on their hands.
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@harukaze5719
According to a recent report AMD plans to release the Ryzen 5 5600 in early 2021 for 220 USD. This represents an 80 USD price cut over the Ryzen 5 5600X and a 20 USD price increase over the Ryzen 5 3600. This launch will likely coincide with BIOS updates for 400 series motherboards to support Ryzen 5000 chips. If AMD can match the performance of Intel's i5-10600K with the Ryzen 5 5600 they will likely have a very impressive value chip on their hands.
78 Comments on AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Rumored to Launch Early 2021 for 220 USD
i can see the guys on 1600 or 2600 will make the jump.
Early 2021 means it needs to contend with whatever Rocket Lake is going to bring to the table.
If we say that it has the same speeds as 3600 (4.2GHz single, 3.95~4.0GHz all core) then by IPC alone it will perform +15~20% across all workloads.
Now for single core if it runs +200MHz you can add another 5% on top of that 15~20%.
For all core, because ZEN3 has also better performance/watt they probably have room (for 65W TDP) to increase at least another 200MHz the all core speed. So another +5%.
5600 = 3600 + 20~25% With current announced prices, if a 5700X/5800nonX exists, I believe it would be around 350~380$. In the middle of 5600X-5800X Although they do have already the RX 5600XT and the R5 5600X
At 269USD MSRP would've been a maybe. 50 bucks plus on the "lower end" is too much.
They probably want to shift ZEN2 stock, but those are already on major discounts and get even cheaper, making a 299USD R5 part look just silly.
At this rate I'll probably pick up a 3700X on discount as it will end up quite a bit cheaper than 5600X launch pricing or just get a couple months old second hand 3600 at literally half the price...
US guys commented it was selling for even less but I did not pay much attention, where.
10600K at 240€:
www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/Intel-Core-i5-10600K-6x-4-10GHz-So-1200-WOF_1362362.html
10600KF at 230€:
www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/Intel-Core-i5-10600KF-6x-4-10GHz-So-1200-Tray_1368137.html
Seriously, the amount of BS seen because 5600X price, a CPU which haven't been benchmarked independently, is remarkable...
All based on vague AMD-supplied tests and preliminary pricing - how often did CPU/GPU/anything changed in the first weeks?
3600X was never the most popular 6-core Zen2 CPU, and there is no less than FOUR 6-cores in the lineup - somewhere after launch, there was a bunch of testing between 3600 and 3500(X) - ok, we know how it ended, but competition is fierce in that particular price range.
And what is actual proof that 5600X is NOT equal or faster than Intel 10XXX, which is live and benchmarked a bunch of times, while we have just selective data from AMD about 5600X.
It's fully possible that 5600X is the same or better than Intel 8-core counterpart. It's fully possible that price will be reduced, if needed. It's fully possible that 5600X is crappy buy and nobody will want it. There's like zero argument for each of this claims...
In the meantime, I raise my fist to heaven and shout loudly that 220g for 5600 non-X is insanely high... :)
Problem is when I can grab a 5-6 month old second hand R7 3700X for 200-200EUR here in Hungary right now (probably even new after 5000 series launch), then the R5 5600X that will probably land around the 289-299EUR mark becomes increasingly less and less attractive as a new purchase. That 50USD/EUR bump AMD had done on the 5600X vs. previous generation means that it will be effectively 30-50% more expensive vs. a 3700X and about 80-100% more expensive vs. a 3600 nonX... and thats terrible.
If it were to launch around 249-259EUR in Europe (doubt it) I could still consider it as an alternative, since you can say that it is brand new stuff.
Yeah, if you can find 2nd hand CPUs then things change. But still wait for reviews, plus... used prices may drop further.
There are too many AMD people who have drank the cool aid to think they are going continue to give you the best bang for the buck as previous generations. Because of their stock performance they no longer have too.
They no longer have to give the customer base superior performance for price, but instead is following Intel's business Tick Tock performance increases.
When there is no real competition, performance stagnates and price increases.
I'm not a rich person (and I'm not one of those rich people who just says they're not rich either), I'm working class (not middle class), and I want to upgrade my 2700x and X470 board just as much as everyone else, but I truly see absolutely nothing wrong with AMD raising the prices by $50. To me, that seems perfectly reasonable considering the 5000 series should be the best CPUs on the market in every single metric. And if that's too much, buy Ryzen 3000/Zen2, which should have even further discounts. At a certain point it starts to seem like certain people want it both ways, they want AMD to have the best performance while remaining the value brand, and it'll never be that way.
Currently, as in right now, on Newegg the cheapest price for a 10900k is $600. So, if the 5800x is going to be better than the 10900k in gaming as well as multithreaded as speculated, how is $450 asking to much?
Why feed your enemy info when they are not planning to release any thing soon ?. My 3900X has been awesome the 5900 is only going be even better :).
This is going to be the budget gaming chip of choice for all of next year, unless Intel really pulls a rabbit out of the hat, or unless the leaked/claimed performance of Zen3 is all lies.