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.
63 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Processors Get their First Round of Price Cuts, 7950X at $574
Users forget one important thing: longevity. These things are designed to run for years. And CPU's become so powerfull these days you really dont need to upgrade for a while. Some decade ago that looked different. But now you swap out the CPU and even your AM4 motherboard is still good for another 3 year depending on your use case.
Bios updates have to be enrolled (Agesa), validation, testing, all that stuff. On top of that the pricing of components is rising as well. Covid messed up alot in the world. But at the other end, more profits is what at the end of the day they are all aiming at.
I'm tempted to replace my 2700 but I can't justify the overall cost of it right now since it does what I need it to do and probably for the next two years at least.
With the AM5 board prices as high as they are, getting a lesser AM5 CPU just doesn't seem to make sense unless you get the rock bottom $150 board.
($554) AMD Ryzen 9 7950X - 16-Core 4.5 GHz - Socket AM5 - 170W Desktop Processor (100-100000514WOF)
www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-9-7950x-ryzen-9-7000-series/p/N82E16819113771
($220) ASRock PRO B650 PRO RS AM5 ATX Mainboard
www.newegg.com/asrock-b650-pro-rs/p/N82E16813162078?Item=N82E16813162078
If AM5 allowed for PCIe 4.0 and DDR4 minimums I think motherboard venders would have been hugely more competitive on price at the less premium end while still offering good quality.
They are resembling Intel more and more...since they have to adhere to AMD indications, with support until 2025 at least, I strongly suspect board manufacturer aren't so keen to lower the prices of their products.
By the way for some CPUs like the 7700X and 7950X, with the new reduced prices the offer is much more interesting now.
If you are speaking about the 7600X, in that case the platform price still is way too high.
I'll go against the grain though, I don't think the longevity of AM4 have been a (sales) problem for mobo makers. Sure, they need to update/valiadte/Blabla longer, so a small extra cost there.
But many who have done the replace-upgrade have ether given away their old CPU's or sold them, and these ones will need new mobo's to put in.
Had motherboard manufacturers made a similar commitment, they would have a bit less trouble trying to justify their high prices.
And that was also coming from a RAM update from DDR3-2200 to DDR5-6600.
I moved from 3570K > 8700K; the jump was enormous, on the same GPU, major gain in min./avg. FPS, much smaller gain in max; that was a pure jump in every aspect, instead of 'trading'. 4c 4.2 with lower IPC to 6c12t 4.6 with higher IPC. You experienced that same jump going to a 12900KS.
The 12900KS was a genuine performance jump from the i5 8600K. If I had gone from a 3770K to a 12900KS, I would have been even more impressed.