News AMD Ryzen 7000 Chips on Massive Sale, Starting at $249

[Admin]

AMD runs promotion on Ryzen 7000-series CPUs, they are available with huge discounts for a limited time.

AMD Ryzen 7000 Chips on Massive Sale, Starting at $249 : Read more

 

[tomachas]

This should have been prided right from the start. AM5 build up comes a huge price tag. At this point, if Intel offers 10-15% off , I think they will provide better value.

 

[daworstplaya]

The market has spoken, AMD priced their products too high. IMHO, the "sale" prices should've been their MSRPs to being with. Even with these "sale" prices, I forsee it being a hard sell.

 

[frogr]

($699-$574) /$699 = 18% discount not 28%

 

[TechieTwo]

IMO the AMD 7000 CPUs are priced appropriately but the AM5 mobos priced above $300 are price gouging. DDR5 is going to cost a little more because of it's design. The price will drop on DDR5 as production ramps. The current discounts on the AMD 7000 CPUs should make people happy but I don't view them as a "massive sale".

 

[bolweval]

Feel bad for all the early adopters that already shelled out the opening prices...

 

[FunSurfer]

There are two AMD 7000 CPU options for gamers: the 7600X for budget gamers and the 7700X3D for enthusiast gamers.
7700X price doesn't worth the small performance gains over the 7600X like all the former AMD CPU generations (like 3700X not much better than 3600) and the 7700X3D is not available yet and I assume that is what most gamers are waiting for and what causes weak sales for now.

 

[Giroro]

AM5 motherboard prices need to come down at least 30%. Until then, AMD's 7xxx processors are essentially fictional.
I don't need to concern myself with processors that don't really exist.

 

[btmedic04]

wonder if i can get microcenter to price match and still do their deal with a free kit of ddr5 6000c30
microcenter deal for those who live near one

 

[lmcnabney]

Everything is going against AMD on this generation. They poorly decided to bank EVERYTHING in DDR5 being cheap enough and built a high-cost chipset/platform. This would have been fine if Intel phoned-in RL, but they didn't. It sure says something how a very mature 10nm process can clock far higher than Taiwan's fancy new 4nm process.

When you factor the motherboard cost, higher RAM cost, and bin the required CPU price to provide equivalent system performance to Intel would require the CPUs to have even greater price cuts.

 

[Barefoot]

The market has spoken, AMD priced their products too high. IMHO, the "sale" prices should've been their MSRPs to being with. Even with these "sale" prices, I forsee it being a hard sell.

["Yet, the new discounts — which are not official price cuts by AMD — will perhaps sweeten the pill."]
Apparently these prices are from Amazon and NOT AMD, so yeah, Intel can do a SmackDown and have a good go of it. They overclock better at this point. Also AMD is new to the LGA sockets, so their employees may be a bit confused by it. (Also their sockets have 18 more pins than Intel, so I'm wondering if the same cooling fans will work for it? That'd kinda standardize things a little 🤔

 

[spongiemaster]

["Yet, the new discounts — which are not official price cuts by AMD — will perhaps sweeten the pill."]
Apparently these prices are from Amazon and NOT AMD, so yeah, Intel can do a SmackDown and have a good go of it. They overclock better at this point. Also AMD is new to the LGA sockets, so their employees may be a bit confused by it. (Also their sockets have 18 more pins than Intel, so I'm wondering if the same cooling fans will work for it? That'd kinda standardize things a little 🤔

The prices dropped in Europe first. The first US retailer to lower prices was Newegg. I doubt Amazon had anything to do with either of those.

 

[Barefoot]

I'm talking about the prices in this post. All of them are supposedly at Amazon and not supported by AMD? It will be interesting to see where 'all things AMD' goes from here. I think the problems lie with the switchover to the JEDEC DDR-5 standard. They got a little lost?

 

[gamr]

amd is preparing non x skus for q1 23

https://videocardz.com/newz/alleged...-specs-and-prices-emerge-launching-in-q1-2023

 

[gamr]

theyre cheap ish

 

[motocros1]

i believe amd over priced am5 to push the last of am4 processors out the door. like nvidia did with their 40 series but because of mindshare they sold out anyway

 

[ingtar33]

The market has spoken, AMD priced their products too high. IMHO, the "sale" prices should've been their MSRPs to being with. Even with these "sale" prices, I forsee it being a hard sell.

the difference between an AMD system at release and an intel system both with DDR5, and a MB which can use DDR5, was like $20

the problem is all the reviewers reviewed the intel chips with DDR5, then talked about the pricing of DDR4 systems, as if it was the same thing. the intel systems with DDR4 see a dropoff in some titles as much as 15% in performance. it's not insignificant. so talking about intel v amd performance in DDR5, then talking about the price of intel systems on ddr4 vs amd ddr5 was really disingenuous.

Don't' get me wrong. I'm not saying AMD wasn't priced too high. I'm saying the price gouging with DDR5 and DDR5 motherboards is out of hand right now.

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

Everything is going against AMD on this generation. They poorly decided to bank EVERYTHING in DDR5 being cheap enough and built a high-cost chipset/platform. This would have been fine if Intel phoned-in RL, but they didn't. It sure says something how a very mature 10nm process can clock far higher than Taiwan's fancy new 4nm process.

When you factor the motherboard cost, higher RAM cost, and bin the required CPU price to provide equivalent system performance to Intel would require the CPUs to have even greater price cuts.

First of all it’s 5nm not 4nm, and second of all, Intel designs their processes specifically for their processor designs whereas TSMC’s processes are generic by design and achieves a well rounded blend of performance and power efficiency so they can be used for a wide variety of chip designs. AMD being able to get 5.75 ghz out of TSMC’s generic 5nm is an achievement in and of itself.

 

[kdw75]

I got a 7900x a couple weeks ago for my work computer, but with these prices I am going to get another to upgrade my 5900x at home. When I got the 7900x they gave me 32Gb of DDR5 6000 RAM for free.

 

[fybyfyby]

AMD runs promotion on Ryzen 7000-series CPUs, they are available with huge discounts for a limited time.

AMD Ryzen 7000 Chips on Massive Sale, Starting at $249 : Read more

Prices of cpus were right for their value.

IMO the AMD 7000 CPUs are priced appropriately but the AM5 mobos priced above $300 are price gouging. DDR5 is going to cost a little more because of it's design. The price will drop on DDR5 as production ramps. The current discounts on the AMD 7000 CPUs should make people happy but I don't view them as a "massive sale".

Exactly. Cpus were on similar price level like last gen. Intel set aggressive prices so AMD could fight it with platform bundles and cheaper b650 mbs from the start. Now the cpus are absolute bargain. When I read some comments it seems like people want it for free :-D.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Whilst I don't disagree with anything being said here, in terms of pricing right now, I think we're forgetting something.

The AM5 socket (if AM4 is anything to go by) will last 4-5 years. This means maybe 3-4 gen of CPU's all on the one platform. This was one of the best things about AM4. You didn't have to buy a new mobo every second release like Intel. So yes, initial costs for Intel systems may be lower right now (due to DDR5 and other things), but down the line, the overall system costs to keep upgrading your CPU for better ones with AMD, will be far less to stay relevant.

 

[Amdlova]

Six core 150usd max

 

[spongiemaster]

I'm talking about the prices in this post. All of them are supposedly at Amazon and not supported by AMD? It will be interesting to see where 'all things AMD' goes from here. I think the problems lie with the switchover to the JEDEC DDR-5 standard. They got a little lost?

AMD's own web store is now selling 7000 series CPU's at the above prices as Black Friday discounts, so AMD is clearly behind this.

 

[Zerk2012]

Its true AMD usually keeps the same socket support longer but your average person doesn't upgrade that often.

I went from a 4790K to a 10600K so that is what 5 generations.

I only upgrade when needed not just because I can.

 

[Zerk2012]

Intel fan boi's cant see the roots as different from the branches, when judging the competition.

Same with AMD fans.
You have people that only buy Intel, AMD, the absolute best they can get regardless if they need it, then the ones that buy the best performance for the buck.