AMD Ryzen 7000: Zen 4 prices dropping hard; Ryzen 9 7950X for 575 USD / 649 euros
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cucaulay malkin
Finally
moab600
AM4 outselling AM5 and RPL by big margin, AM5 motherboard needs a heavy price cuts.
If the CPU prices will remain like that after Black Friday, as well as the motherboard prices will drop, AM5 will finally be a very competitive platform even before X3D.
Sylencer
Cut them again and also the mbs, then we can talk again.
TheDeeGee
Prices are fine, but some people insist on upgrading every generation.
I keep my CPU 6-8 years.
pegasus1
H83
fantaskarsef
Good. They need to clear inventory before the launch of 3d cache CPUs anyway...
Solfaur
It's a good thing, however the most expensive part of this platform upgrade are the motherboards, whose prices are entirely dependent on board partners and I doubt there will be any price drops from them.
wavetrex
Title correction:
Zen 4 prices are reaching the level they should have been in the first place.
If only the motherboards would follow soon...
Horus-Anhur
Price drops are always good for consumers.
Now onwards to GPUs. 😀
Valken
STILL waiting for GREEDY AZZ MB makers to drop their prices and profits...
asturur
vestibule
Just checked and yes, 7600x is now tempting, but the mobos are still at least 50 to much.
mentor07825
Despite prices starting to level off a little bit for the processors I am going to hold out for the 3D range from AMD as I primarily game off my computer and do minor production level work as a hobby or on-calls.
Maybe by the time the 3D procs release motherboard prices will even off a bit with DDR5 costs as well.
schmidtbag
The 7700X is now $350 at some stores. Wasn't the 7700 rumored to be around $330? I assume whenever that gets released, its price will have to be pushed down further.
So far, the price of the 7000 series now is pretty much what it should have been on release day.
StevieSleep
Let's say you want 32GB of RAM. With DDR5 over DDR4 you need to pay an extra 100$.
The difference between B650 and B550 is also 100$.
A barely 100$ price drop on the CPU is not going to move the needle much. Especially considering how flawed the RTX 4000 series availability is. And you'll have to call me pessimist but I severely doubt that AMD GPU pricing will be anything but in line with Nvidia pricing.
Chances are that both the general public and even companies would rather buy last gen components for cheap over current gen stuff. And unless if really fits your use case forking over an extra 100$ or more is probably not appealing to you either.
H83
Well, i`ve just checked the prices in Portugal and the CPUs are already cheaper, the 7600X now starts at 293€, the 7700X at 436€ and the 6900X at 594€.
I`M thinking about a 7700X, because i want an octa core CPU to replace my 7600K, but the 7600X is looking tempting, specially as i could buy one now and the replace it with 3D version later.
In Portugal i can already get good 32Gb DDR5 kits for around 200€, so is not that expensive.
The (big) problem is that MBs prices are the same as always, too expensive...
BTW, the long boot times issues have already been sorted out or do we still have to wait a minute to start the system?...
Silva
New CPUS always came at a premium, I saw no problem with initial pricing (considering the competition and everything else). Of course they could be cheaper, but at least they're not GPU offensive expensive.
That said, motherboards are really expensive and DDR5, although not prohibitive expensive, it adds up to the total system cost.
Unless you're coming from a really old system, AM5 makes no sense. Anyone on AM4 should just upgrade CPU to 5000 series and hold 2 more years.
Alessio1989
7600 now is 100€ less expensive than 5800X3D in italy from amazon prime :v
mackintosh
Finally some common sense. Hopefully this will hold for the next cycle as well, or else we're going to be seeing 1000€ X3Ds.