AMD has been quietly cutting prices again of its Ryzen 7000-series CPUs, this time mostly likely to offer space above them for its incoming and highly-anticipated Ryzen 7000-series X3D CPUs with 3D V-Cache. Those processors could well see increased sales for AMD, with better gaming performance compared to their predecessors.
AMD’s Ryzen 9 7700 processor
The company has already slashed prices with costs falling back in November for CPUs such as the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X to compete with Intel’s 13th Gen CPUs that offered similar bang for your buck, but with the benefit of a cheaper platform.
For example, Intel’s Core i5-13600K generally performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600X and Ryzen 7 7700X in many tests, but the Ryzen 7 7700X cost signficiantly more. Even Intel has seen prices slide to counteract AMD’s moves – the Core i5-13600K dropped in price back in November and has remained low since then.
As spotted by Wccftech, Microcentre for one is reducing prices with the Ryzen 9 7950X retailing for $587 and including 32GB of DDR5 memory – $110 cheaper than its launch price, the Ryzen 9 7900X falls to $418, also including a 32GB DDR5 memory kit.
The Ryzen 9 7900X is cheaper now than it’s ever been, sitting even lower than original price cuts … [+]
On Amazon, the official price has fallen by $20 since the beginning of the month to $419 – a massive $130 lower than the launch price back in November.The Ryzen 7 7700X now sits at $342, while the Ryzen 5 7600X costs just $244 – both down on where they were at the beginning of the year.
Could AMD’s Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs turn around its fortunes?
AMD claims up to 30 percent more performance in games with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D compared to the Ryzen … [+]
AMD is promissing drastic performance improvements in performance with its Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs, and above we can see it’s claimed increases over the already excellent gaming chip – the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The promise of these processors being just around the corner is definitely one factor in modest sales of its Ryzen 7000-series CPUs so far.
The high cost of its platform Socket AM5 – expensive motherboards and requirement for DDR5 memory even for cheaper models – is another reason and that certainly isn’t being fixed any time soon. However, while the original Ryzen 7000 CPUs lack the grunt to better Intel in games, the new X3D models could well be unbeatable and give a good reason for those holding out or looking to upgrade to finally splash out.
Another perk is that the frequencies of the new CPUs don’t appear to be much lower than their original counterparts. This should mean that unlike the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, they don’t have drastically lower performance outside of games and instead offer decent content creation performance as well as stellar gaming frame rates.
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