Sunday, June 30th 2024
Slovenian Retailer Puts AMD's Ryzen 9000-series up for Pre-order
As we're getting close to the launch of AMD's 9000-series Ryzen processors, local retailers have already started to put the new CPUs up for pre-order and this gives us a first glimpse into the pricing we can expect. The first company to do so in Europe is Slovenian retailer Funtech, which has put up all four SKUs on its site. For those not familiar with European pricing, Slovenia has a VAT or sales tax rate of 22 percent, which obviously makes the pricing higher than in the US and some other countries. As Funtech also sells AMD's current CPUs, we can also get an idea of how much more the new CPUs will cost, at least compared to what the online retailer sells the equivalent 7000-series models for.
Starting from the bottom, the Ryzen 5 9600X goes for €310 (US$332) and the shop has the Ryzen 7 7600X up for sale at €212. The Ryzen 7 9700X goes for €400 (US$429), whereas the Ryzen 7 7700X is sold for €305. The Ryzen 9 9900X is listed at €500 (US$536) with the Ryzen 9 7900X at €392. Finally the Ryzen 9 9950X is listed at €660 (US$707), compared to €510 for the Ryzen 9 7950X. This is in line with earlier leaked pricing from the Philippines and with the VAT removed, we end up close to proposed MSRP pricing by various leakers over the past couple of months, or even somewhat lower. If anything, it doesn't look like AMD is going to increase the MSRP over the 7000-series of Ryzen processors.
Sources:
Funtech, via Videocardz
Starting from the bottom, the Ryzen 5 9600X goes for €310 (US$332) and the shop has the Ryzen 7 7600X up for sale at €212. The Ryzen 7 9700X goes for €400 (US$429), whereas the Ryzen 7 7700X is sold for €305. The Ryzen 9 9900X is listed at €500 (US$536) with the Ryzen 9 7900X at €392. Finally the Ryzen 9 9950X is listed at €660 (US$707), compared to €510 for the Ryzen 9 7950X. This is in line with earlier leaked pricing from the Philippines and with the VAT removed, we end up close to proposed MSRP pricing by various leakers over the past couple of months, or even somewhat lower. If anything, it doesn't look like AMD is going to increase the MSRP over the 7000-series of Ryzen processors.
49 Comments on Slovenian Retailer Puts AMD's Ryzen 9000-series up for Pre-order
This low-end, entry-level six-core is now the same price? Something is definitely wrong here.
Also, inflation/greed.
And at that time you had the good, light and fast Windows 7, today you have the much more demanding and slow Windows 11, and apps which require more cores / more threads.
FWIW I find the apparent retail prices for the new series not bad at all. Too bad that for me they're right now out of the picture. The upgrade path to AM5 and DDR5 is still just too steep for me. Especially considering I only buy ECC memory.
AND that is very telling.
Never saw the wisdom of ordering something you cannot even get till certain date, and paying the earliest-early adopter tax. Market exists for those willing to pay, I suppose.
The 800-series is the same chipset as the 700-series, some augmented with a USB4 host controller.
We saw some nice new shinies at the trade show.
But also on previous generations.... Comparing my deafult 10400F and fine tuned undervolted 5600X PCs is 28-29W(i5) VS. 48-49W(R5) on Win 10 desktop idle.
Idle power is totally two world the 2 brand.
Only the monolitic CPUs, like R5 5500, etc... have a good idle power consumption.
Yes monolithic dies are more power efficient at idle than otherwise identical silicon that is split up into chiplets, and the 10400F is certainly frugal. You have also identified what is likely the largest gulf across the range of desktop chips to compare where the 5600X is the least power efficient for it's performance in the range, whilst I expect that the Intel 10-series chips are most efficient at the lower end and least efficient at the top end.