I'm postponing a purchase because AMD has decided to make a quick buck and removed 5700X from the lineup. No way I'm downgrading from 3700X to 5600X and 5800X is too ****ing expensive, thank you very much.
Well, a $50 increase from $250 is indeed quite a lot, but a $50 increase from $500? Not so much. I still think it kind of sucks, but it mainly just demonstrates that AMD no longer feels they need to court the "hey, we're also here, we deliver decent performance at a lower price" image.
AMD fans on TPU are trying hard to justify the fact that AMD is now copying the worst monopolistic companies in the world by raising their prices quite significantly and that's a strange phenomenon I cannot quite understand. I mean they've always hated Intel and NVIDIA for offering the highest performance at not so good prices and now that AMD does exactly that, it's suddenly OK. WTF?!
Wake me up when AMD starts bribing OEMs to not use Intel and Nvidia parts, yeah? Until then, maybe take a step back and think again which actions you consider equivalent.
I keep hearing AMD needs money for R&D and ... Intel and NVIDIA do not? Really? These two companies use AI and aliens to develop new products, right? They get them basically for free? Is it how AMD fans rationalize AMD's worst behavior since Athlon 64 when they sold their CPUs at insane prices?
AMD was on the brink of bankruptcy five years ago. Intel has a cash hoard like nobody else in the tech industry save Apple. Nvidia isn't far behind. So yes, AMD has needed more money for R&D than the others, but it's not about them not
needing it, it's about them
already having it.
Quite agree with you. 3700X was great, while 5800X is the absolute worst in the new lineup.
Disagree - the 5600X is a much more noticeable price hike (though the bump in clock speeds is admittedly also bigger compared to its predecessors).
Can't speak for anyone else, but in my opinion the current high prices of Ryzen 5000 CPUs will help drain stocks of older-gen CPUs that may remain.
That sounds likely. They know they've got enough consumer trust to sell as a high end option for enthusiasts with money now, all the while they can clear out older products without cutting too heavily into their margins.
Here's hoping Intel actually manages to deliver something
new and competitive (read: not another series of 250W CPUs) so that we can get some price competition going. But for now, in the short term, I think AMD has earned padding their margins some - but in the long term, there's obviously the risk that corporate greed will take over there too.
all within my life span ,cool.