Monday, November 21st 2022
AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Processors Get their First Round of Price Cuts, 7950X at $574
AMD Ryzen 7000-series "Zen 4" desktop processors got their first round of price-cuts on leading retailer Newegg, as the company has a hard time justifying their launch-prices in the wake of Intel's 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" and declining demand in the PC components market. The new pricing sees the top Ryzen 9 7950X 16-core/32-thread chip priced at USD $574, down from $700 (an 18% price-cut). The 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 7900X sees its price go down from $550 to $474 (down 14%).
The 8-core/16-thread Ryzen 7 7700X gets a $50 price-cut sending its price down from $400 to roughly $350. The 6-core/12-thread Ryzen 5 7600X gets a similar $50 cut, which means the chip can now be had for roughly $250, down from its $300 launch price. All four SKUs face stiff competition from the aggressively priced 13th Gen Core SKUs, which include the i9-13900K, the i7-13700K, and the i5-13600K. Prices of Socket AM5 motherboards are another big put-off as they're a major contributor to platform costs, which is restricted to DDR5 memory. The Intel platform currently includes entry-level chipset options, as well as motherboards with DDR4 support.
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The 8-core/16-thread Ryzen 7 7700X gets a $50 price-cut sending its price down from $400 to roughly $350. The 6-core/12-thread Ryzen 5 7600X gets a similar $50 cut, which means the chip can now be had for roughly $250, down from its $300 launch price. All four SKUs face stiff competition from the aggressively priced 13th Gen Core SKUs, which include the i9-13900K, the i7-13700K, and the i5-13600K. Prices of Socket AM5 motherboards are another big put-off as they're a major contributor to platform costs, which is restricted to DDR5 memory. The Intel platform currently includes entry-level chipset options, as well as motherboards with DDR4 support.
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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X should be down to 240ish
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X should be around 300-320ish
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X should be around 450ish
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X should be around 550ish
With those prices it would be worth concider it, but if we stay strong and not buy the 7000 series AMD will lower the prices not just halt the production and I know costs has gone with up DDR5 but who needs PCI-E Gen5 other than NVME ssd's that haven't been released yet when we talk customer.
Let's stop it here.
I’m honestly surprised it took this long to see a price drop.
Of course, that the prices are skyrocketing. What should cost $79 costs $159.
B550 boards started at about $80 and $150 gets you top-tier B550 or a half-decent X570.
If you want a midrange or budget system you have to ho socket AM4.
I spent the full 699 on my 7950x, along with 500 for the x670E board a couple days after launch.
No biggie though, I like new shiny stuff :P
And AMD is currently doing the latter. When Intel is arguing you're too high, you probably ought to reconsider especially if you have a product that is, at best, equal to the competition that's outpricing you and that's me being generous.
I've stated in the past about the obscene cost of the motherboard and I was DEAD Right on the cost.
Because of AMD's move of reducing the price of the CPU actually correlates with what I thought was overall price of the CPU motherboard in question.
IMHO this was far easier to reduce their price on the CPU themselves than to tell the motherboard partners to drop their pricing.
This is a whole entire mess of upper management that let Intel back into the game. Do NOT tell me they could have allowed a DDR4/5 Chipset Combo that Intel has done with their MB chipset.
They could have but choose not to go that way.