Thursday, February 2nd 2023
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Price Trimmed to $299
In the wake of its Ryzen 7000X3D series announcement, AMD cut the price of its Ryzen 7 7700X 8-core/16-thread "Zen 4" processor. The Ryzen 7000X3D series is available from February 28, however, the 8-core 7800X3D will only be available from April 6. Despite this, sales prospects of the 7700X could be affected, as the SKU faces cannibalization not just from the 7800X3D, but also the recently launched 65 W Ryzen 7 7700, which has shown decent overclocking potential with motherboard-level power limit unlocks. What's interesting is that the 105 W 7700X at $299 puts it below the 65 W 7700 that launched at $325, which means that the 7700 could get even cheaper. This series of price-cuts and SKU re-positioning could make AMD competitive against Intel's 13th Gen Core i5 SKUs such as the i5-13600 and i5-13500 6P+8E models.
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63 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Price Trimmed to $299
But yeah it's crazy how fast they are dropping, it's really sad that the mobo's are so expensive.
With AMD the more you wait the more you save.
The CPU is fine. It can't sell because of the high cost of motherboards and memory, and because all of Intel sucks except for the 13600KF which is directly targeting the 7700X's performance category. Same problem Intel had with the 12th gen launch and why the vast majority are now all DDR4 instead for Intel. AMD is doing a year long transition, they are fine selling massive quantities of Ryzen 5000 in the meantime.
That deal is still ongoing, and has been almost since launch day. Desperation is an interesting new look for AMD.
They just got really comfy post Zen 3 during the pandemic when WFH reigned supreme and CPUs were selling hand over fist, charging the consumer whatever tf they wanted thanks to Intel's no show in late 2020 for all segments except value. Took until Alder Lake arrived in Q3 2021 before they were reigned in, and subsequently Zen 3 prices plummeted to where they are right now.
299 USD for a 6 core/12 thread CPU (5600X) (1600/2600/3600 were all 199 USD), never forget what AMD is capable of when in the lead and unchallenged just like any other corporation.
Personally I am looking at the non-x to slap my current Noctua NH-D15 chromax black on because that one is easier to cool and performance in games and doesn't need a AIO or custom loop to keep cool :roll:
Planning on getting this board and 2x16GB DDR5 and it's set.
I only hope the new 3dvcache wills how their strength.
Even I did but I miss a onboard GPU these days with energy prices like the waves in the sea that's why I am currently selling my cpu and board going AMD Ryzen 7 7700 non-X because on week days I do not need my dedicated GPU to run what I do and some weekends to so if I can save the power that my CPU uses with hardware acceleration too it will be great plus AM5 will have support for a couple of years.