Ryzen 9000-series Pricing Leak Ahead of Launch

[TheLostSwede]

Official Ryzen 9000-series pricing has leaked just ahead of the launch, courtesy of Newegg and BestBuy in the US. Serial leaker @momomo_us over at X/Twitter managed to snap screenshots of the pricing before it was removed by the retailers. This might've been because of a mixup, since the Ryzen 9000-series was supposed to launch today, before being pushed back to the 8th and 14th of August respectively, depending on the SKU. Admittedly the pricing might still change, but it's highly likely that the leaked pricing is AMD's MSRP for the four new CPUs, as both of the retailers have listed identical pricing for the four SKUs.

The good news for prospective buyers of the new CPUs is that AMD has lowered the pricing across the board compared to the launch pricing for the Ryzen 7000-series, especially at the higher-end. The Ryzen 5 9600X should have an MSRP of US$279, followed by US$359 for the Ryzen 7 9700X. That's US$20 and US$40 lower than their Ryzen 7000-series counterparts respectively. The Ryzen 9 9900X should retail for US$449, followed by US$599 for the Ryzen 9 9950, both US$100 less than their Ryzen 7000-series counterparts. This could in part be due to the expected X3D parts coming at a later point in time and AMD now knowing it has to offer the non X3D SKUs for a more competitive price point.



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[JustBenching]

The r5 and r7 need further price cuts. The r9s are pretty decent. Until 15th gen arrives the 9950x will be the top dog, so even 699 would make sense.

 

[Daven]

3D chips might be coming much earlier than the past so there needs to be room in the pricing for both 3D and non-3D chips to coexist without price drops. Before, AMD released 3D chips so long after the non 3D chips that they were able to release the 3D chips at the same price as the non 3D chips and then drop the price of the non 3D chips.

Edit: Probably looking at something like this: (all released before the end of the year)

9600X $279
9700X $359
9800X3D $449
9900X $449
9900X3D $549
9950X $599
9950X3D $699

 

[Chaitanya]

Not bad pricing if true and a good corrective steps from AMD when it comes to their usual MO of stupid launch price with heavy price cuts in few months time.

 

[A Computer Guy]

I'll still be waiting for Christmas specials to give me time to review and decide between AM5 EPYC and 9000 series.

 

[Sabotaged_Enigma]

9600X and 9700X are still too expensive. AMD just need to cut prices and behave well with Intel currently going wrong. Grab this chance.

 

[JustBenching]

They need to rename those chips to r3 and r5 respectively on top of the price cuts.

 

[Icon Charlie]

Not bad pricing if true and a good corrective steps from AMD when it comes to their usual MO of stupid launch price with heavy price cuts in few months time.

This depends on the cost of other things. As stated before my rumors were 100% when the 600 series motherboards were launched. The motherboards were just too damned expensive for what you got out of them, which forced AMD to lower their CPU prices so people could bundle buy the setup.

Yea IMHO it appears to look like more of the same. And yea I've heard some rumors on these new boards as well.

Expensive New Generation mother boards = Lowering the CPU prices for people to buy the whole package down the road.

Also unless you live under a rock... Times are tough. People do not have discrectionary income to throw around.

Everything depends on Performance Vs Price Vs Energy Effeciency for me. Which is why I haven't made an upgrade to my rig yet.

My rig is just too reliable and effecient to just swap out for the LoL's If I upgrade it will be the same concept on current build.

 

[Daven]

I also feel I should point out that the 9000 series is being released at lower TDP, lower price and higher performance. When was the last time that happened?

 

[R0H1T]

9950x at that price? How do you suppose they'll discount the next gen latest 5xxx XT chips

When was the last time that happened?

Original Zen I guess wrt Intel at least.

 

[bug]

Pricing looks good. Here's hoping the performance is all we expect it to be.

 

[JustBenching]

I also feel I should point out that the 9000 series is being released at lower TDP, lower price and higher performance. When was the last time that happened?

12 to 14 gen was a ~40% MT performance increase within a year. Zen 4 to zen 5 is what, 15% MT performance increase in 2 years.

 

[Daven]

12 to 14 gen was a ~40% MT performance increase within a year. Zen 4 to zen 5 is what, 15% MT performance increase in 2 years.

Yes put the TDP went up and the price was the same. When was the last time price and TDP went down and performance went up?

 

[JustBenching]

Yes put the TDP went up and the price was the same. When was the last time price and TDP went down and performance went up?

Come on, tdp went up by 13 watts, 240 to 253.

12900k ---> 13700k, similar performance increase, price went drastically down - again within a year.

You are trying to portray a 15% performance increase in the timespan of 2 years as revolutionary. It's really not?

 

[LittleBro]

12 to 14 gen was a ~40% MT performance increase within a year. Zen 4 to zen 5 is what, 15% MT performance increase in 2 years.

He was saying that not only AMD managed to improve IPC, but also efficiency. Have a look at 9700X ... +15% IPC with TDP 65W instead of 105W (7700X).
Of course, there is plenty of headroom for OC in 9700X. This will be (apart from X3D chips), the next AMD's bestseller, no doubt about it.

Intel managed to get IPC by brute forcing clocks on those Raptor cores and look how it turned out for them ...
So, maybe Intel managed to get +40% MT perf in 2 generations but those 2 generations won't live till next generation. Burn baby burn.

 

[Chaitanya]

This depends on the cost of other things. As stated before my rumors were 100% when the 600 series motherboards were launched. The motherboards were just too damned expensive for what you got out of them, which forced AMD to lower their CPU prices so people could bundle buy the setup.

Yea IMHO it appears to look like more of the same. And yea I've heard some rumors on these new boards as well.

Expensive New Generation mother boards = Lowering the CPU prices for people to buy the whole package down the road.

Also unless you live under a rock... Times are tough. People do not have discrectionary income to throw around.

Everything depends on Performance Vs Price Vs Energy Effeciency for me. Which is why I haven't made an upgrade to my rig yet.

My rig is just too reliable and effecient to just swap out for the LoL's If I upgrade it will be the same concept on current build.

Ever since I upgraded my 3700x to 5950x(also got a Radeon 7800xt recently), I dont see a reason to upgrade my PC for atleast another 2-3 years so I can easily save and skip AM5 platform. Also I keep that PC offline with stable versions of the tools(photo stacking softwares and other image editors) and OS installed so I dont have to worry about bloated OS upgrades ruining the expirience. Thankfully this years monsoons seem to be on course to be "normal" which should ease some food inflation here in India(compared to last year when El Nino lead to weak monsoons and there was drop in food production).

 

[HBSound]

I can't wait to check out the latest ITX motherboards designed to support these new CPUs (X870E)!

 

[rv8000]

They’ll probably stick with the 7600X release MSRP of $299 for the 9600X. $349 would be an odd choice for 6c/12t CPU in 2024.

It would be nice to see pricing around $269-279 imo with the 9700X slotting in at $349-369, but AMD will have free reign with pricing until Oct-Dec so they’ll charge as much as they can realistically get.

(From price gouged leak thread a few days ago ^)

Looks like what I was hoping for might happen price wise, which is nice to see. No HT for core ultra5/7 parts, and boosted ecore ipc will see their MT performance fall pretty flat as they chop off ecore clusters going down the line. AMD will have less to worry about this time around and its good to see preemptive adjustments to pricing as Intel will be late to the party.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I can't wait to check out the latest ITX motherboards designed to support these new CPUs (X870E)!

I doubt there will be a dual chipset mini-ITX board, since you have to squeeze in the USB4 host controller as well.
Also, Asus has already proven that a dual chipset mini-ITX board is pointless.

 

[Chrispy_]

It's not like Intel 13th/14th gen have had smooth runs, but AM5 feels like it's only just solved the teething troubles.

• DDR5 pricing.
• Motherboard pricing. (I think we're blaming Gen5 PCIe for that still, right?)
• Decent availability of EXPO kits for the masses to get 'XMP' stable without manual voltage/timing tweaks.
• Ridiculous boot times on so many motherboards that took 9 months or more to resolve through AGESA and BIOS updates.
• The ASUS faulty BIOS issue that burned many X3D and even some regular X-series CPUS

Now we can finally call AM5 'ready' but it's only in the last 6 months or so that I feel it's become a mature, stable enough platform to recommend without caveat.

 

[A Computer Guy]

It's not like Intel 13th/14th gen have had smooth runs, but AM5 feels like it's only just solved the teething troubles.

• DDR5 pricing.
• Motherboard pricing. (I think we're blaming Gen5 PCIe for that still, right?)
• Decent availability of EXPO kits for the masses to get 'XMP' stable without manual voltage/timing tweaks.
• Ridiculous boot times on so many motherboards that took 9 months or more to resolve through AGESA and BIOS updates.
• The ASUS faulty BIOS issue that burned many X3D and even some regular X-series CPUS

Now we can finally call AM5 'ready' but it's only in the last 6 months or so that I feel it's become a mature, stable enough platform to recommend without caveat.

Still waiting for more consistent reporting of ECC support. For example ASRock QVL's still don't have any UDIMM ECC sticks listed. Also uncertain if AM5 EPYC is supported on consumer motherboards although it seems they also have PRO series CPU's again which are listed.

 

[Pumper]

So where's the so called inflation?

3950x MSRP $749
5950x MSRP $799
7950x MSRP $699
9950x MSRP $599

Does it somehow only exist when the same fabs are used to produce nvidia GPUs?

9950x at that price? How do you suppose they'll discount the next gen latest 5xxx XT chips

I would guess that they bet on people willing to overspend on Zen3 just to save on not having to upgrade mobo and RAM.

 

[A Computer Guy]

So where's the so called inflation?

3950x MSRP $749
5950x MSRP $799
7950x MSRP $699
9950x MSRP $599

Does it somehow only exist when the same fabs are used to produce nvidia GPUs?

I would say it exists because Intel isn't so easily dethroned regardless of product quality issues.

 

[Franzen4Real]

Nice to see the R9-x950 series continuing the trend of launching $100 cheaper than the previous gen.

 

[R0H1T]

I would say it exists because Intel isn't so easily dethroned regardless of product quality issues.

Competition in the "CPU" space is also much higher with AMD/Intel & Apple, now arguably QC also vying for the same pie. Gaming GPU's are a niche of a niche!