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Guru3D.com » News » Intel is Dropping Processor Prices in Wake of Ryzen Launch

Intel is Dropping Processor Prices in Wake of Ryzen Launch

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/26/2017 02:27 PM | source: | 74 comment(s)
Intel is Dropping Processor Prices in Wake of Ryzen Launch

It seems that Intel is getting nervous about the AMD Ryzen launch and has started to lower prices on their processors. The equivalent 6900K model however still is 999 USD, twice as much as the Ryzen flagship. Others like the quad-core processors do see a price cut.

Also we think with a tiny bit of tweaking that 6900K might even get beaten or normalized by even a 329 USD Ryzen 7 1700 processor. The new prices have not gone into effect everywhere, here in the EU they are still at the same old level. In the USA etailers like Newegg also is listing older prices.

However it is at Microcenter (USA) where you can see a shift in prices, one very obvious one would be the Intel Core i7-7700K which started selling at 299 US, that's roughly a $80 lower price over the original MSRP (regular etail recently already was in the 330 USD range though). I do want to emphasize strongly that the prices listed are only in effect at microcenter and will only be available with 'in store pickups' and with a limit of 1 per household. Remember though, this is just one (r)etailer showing these prices. We do not know if the rest will follow. It could very well be a little marketing stunt steered by either Microcenter and/or Intel to make the news.

  • Intel Core i7-6950X is priced $1599 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-6900K is priced $999 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-6850K is priced $549 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-6800K is priced $359 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-5820K is priced $319 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-7700K is priced $299 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-6700K is priced $259 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-4790K is priced $279 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-7700 is priced $289 (USD)
  • Intel Core i7-6700 is priced $259 (USD)
  • Intel Core i5-7600K is priced $199 (USD)
  • Intel Core i5-6600K is priced $179 (USD)
  • Intel Core i5-4690K is priced $189 (USD)
  • Intel Core i5-6500 is priced $179 (USD)
  • Intel Core i5-4590 is priced $159 (USD)
  • Intel Core i3-7350K is priced $159 (USD)
Depending on what state you reside in that price will get a 5 to 10% sales tax.

It will remain to be seen if the price drop is a temporary one to counter the Ryzen release ot that is will invoke a cut on a global scale. Maybe Intel will lower it's chipset prices as well, as the Z170/Z270 chipset is very expensive, and thus makes Intel chipset based motherboards more expensive as well. 







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Warrax
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#5398595 Posted on: 02/27/2017 06:28 AM
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One thing is mostly sure...is that 4 cores 8 threads Ryzen will probably clock at 4.6ghz+ on air, competing directly with 7700k in single thread performance, at lower price. Also even tho I plan to buy a 1700x, I'll probably tweak it to turbo at 4.5ghz+ at 4 cores.

Of course if you don't need 8 cores ever, a Ryzen 7 CPU might need be good value, a Ryzen 3 with SMT (4C/8T) will be enough. TBH if you plan to buy a 7700k, I would at least wait for Ryzen 3.

tensai28
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#5398608 Posted on: 02/27/2017 08:09 AM
Prices haven't changed here. :puke2:
6600k is still the same price as when I bought it.

tensai28
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#5398610 Posted on: 02/27/2017 08:31 AM
But since fast serial performance is never really equal to actual parallelism, you get phenomena like people with Skylake i5s getting stuttering in Battlefield 1.


That's odd...it is stutter free for me. :3eyes:

Stormyandcold
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#5398664 Posted on: 02/27/2017 11:57 AM
Most of my games are through Origin....


lol.

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