D3M1G0D:

A decent price, for sure. The MCM approach is paying major dividends for AMD, and it looks like they are going to absolutely dominate the HEDT market this year (makes the 7980XE look wildly overpriced). I wonder if Intel will consider lowering the price of the Core i9?

They will have huge problems trying to drop the prices. The 18 core chip already comes at a 484 mm2, the 28 core version does 698 mm2 which is absolutely massive. These kind of chips will have a ton of problems with yields because of their size, making the cost to produce them high.

Silva:

It's for sure a typo. TDP is 250W for 32 cores. The price doesn't surprise me at all, sits at around 375€ per die. A 2700X costs around 350€ so AMD is keeping it very very competitive. Intel for sure is having cold feet for a long time.

Yes, based on the 1950x prices, I'd have thought it would ring the bell at $1999, for sure...;) AMD is being super-competitive all across the spectrum--glad to see it!

Elder III:

It's allot of dough, but it seems like a pretty good deal based on the current market. $1500 for a CPU $400 for a Mobo $800 for 64GB DDR4 3200 Maybe I'll stick with my measly Ryzen 1700X for now.

You'll appreciate this little bit of perspective, then. Back in 1995 I bought the very last OEM machine I ever owned (after that I started building my own and have done ever since.) It was a Micron 166MHz Pentium III (?--it's vague) with I believe 8 whole MEGA-bytes of system ram, very slow EDO ram, IIRC, a GPU with 32-or 64 MEGA-bytes of onboard ram, a 1 (one) Gigabyte scsi hard drive, a Jazz tape drive, sound-blaster derivative, mouse, keyboard, Win95 or 2K (it's vague)--and etc. It was a bargain @ $4795...;) Believe it, or not... (It's true) So these days I tend to think a bit differently about current prices, as in "Man, that's inexpensive! Whew!"... It's interesting I think to note that as the market for computer tech has grown huge, the computer hardware market (x86) is the only market I know of that experiences *negative* inflation year in and year out--in that the systems grow ever more powerful and spacious even as the prices continue to fall per Gigabyte, per cpu core, etc. And even so the market still continues to grow. Gawd, I'd love to have all the money I dumped into Amigas and x86 DOS/Windows machines so long ago. People sometimes say, "Wow, I wish I had lived through the time of the Amiga, et al; it was the Golden Age of computing." My response is, "You're kidding! Right now--we are smack in the middle of the true computer 'Golden Age', imo. It's never been possible to buy as much power as is available today and at such incredibly low prices, along with so much available software it's hard to know what to do with it all!" Another really bad thing in comparison with today is *how dreadfully long* it took between major computer advances in hardware and the production of quality software--especially games! Sometimes the wait would be years in between. Nope--I don't miss the old days at all...! Reply

250w is incredibly impressive. Hopefully AMD gains a lot of lot more market share than they currently have. The price is not high either for the amount of cores.

waltc3:

Another really bad thing in comparison with today is *how dreadfully long* it took between major computer advances in hardware and the production of quality software--especially games! Sometimes the wait would be years in between. Nope--I don't miss the old days at all...!

I agree with all you said but this. I'd rather go back to the age of 5 years to develop an amazing game to the BS 1 year we have now to put a new skin and charge 60€ for unfinished game with bugs and more for DLC and loot boxes. F that.

1950X price lowered to €650/$630! ~€40/$40 per core! 😱

D3M1G0D:

A decent price, for sure. The MCM approach is paying major dividends for AMD, and it looks like they are going to absolutely dominate the HEDT market this year (makes the 7980XE look wildly overpriced). I wonder if Intel will consider lowering the price of the Core i9?

oh yeah they'll consider lowering the price at the department level in-house. i'm not being sarcastic. but the thought will die a quick and painful death long before it gets to the V.P. level. in all honesty, marketing would up-scale the packaging, even to the point of luxury workmanship before they would drop the price more than $100.