News AMD's Ryzen 5000 CPUs Get Major Price Cuts Up To 25 Percent

[artk2219]

No, they didn't.

Sandy Bridge i7-2700k - $332 (October 2011)
Ivy Bridge i7-3770k - $332
Haswell i7-4790k - $339
Broadwell - let's pretend these didn't exist, because they didn't
Skylake - i7-6700k - $339
Kaby Lake i7-7700k - $339 (January 2017)

Ryzen Zen 1 was released in March 2017.

Zero competition from AMD this entire stretch. Over five years, and 6 generations, the mainstream top end price increased $7 (2%).

Fair enough but they didn't exactly do anything until Ryzen came about. Between 2011 and 2017 there was only a 25% bump in ipc while keeping the exact same 4 core and eight thread configuration, a configuration that had a die size of only 122mm sq by 2017 vs 214mm in 2011. Sure they weren't charging more, but it doesn't mean they weren't stagnant as hell and raking in the profits. It took until Ryzen and some actual competition from AMD for Intel to fire their philandering CEO and actually start putting out better products. Granted the move to a six core i7 had been planned on the standard desktop with coffee lake, but I guarantee you they wanted to raise prices as well. We would probably still be slow rolling on six cores had Ryzen not made eight cores and sixteen threads standard, and 16 cores and 32 threads a possibility on non workstations.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1404...core-i7-2600k-testing-sandy-bridge-in-2019/21

 

[TerryLaze]

Fair enough but they didn't exactly do anything until Ryzen came about. Between 2011 and 2017 there was only a 25% bump in ipc while keeping the exact same 4 core and eight thread configuration,

intel released the 6c/12t i7-980x in 2010, yes at $1000 but 7 years before zen, imagine how fast AMD would have been a goner if intel had priced this thing as a desktop part.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...33-ghz-6-40-gts-intel-qpi/specifications.html

 

[artk2219]

intel released the 6c/12t i7-980x in 2010, yes at $1000 but 7 years before zen, imagine how fast AMD would have been a goner if intel had priced this thing as a desktop part.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...33-ghz-6-40-gts-intel-qpi/specifications.html

Oh I know, but lga 1366 was not a standard desktop socket, more like hedt \ workstation, everyone else had to wait until lga 1156 for that. A socket which incidentally set the trend of a four core and eight thread i7 as it's max supported config (surprise). If we're going back to when six core x86 CPUs were first introduced we're going back to the six core opteron and xeon mp 7400 lines. Friggin 6 core core 2 CPUs on socket 604, how neat is that? Incidentally the six core opteron pretty directly morphed into the phenom ii x6 line, which were the first 6 core CPUs on a standard desktop socket (am3 or am2(+) if you wanted). I get that that lack of innovation kept amd alive, it still doesn't mean that Intel wasn't milking profits and painting themselves into a corner. Something they're just now coming to grips with.

https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon MP X7460 - AD80582KH067007 (BX80582X7460).html

https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/TYPE-Six-Core Opteron.html

https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/... Edition - HDT90ZFBK6DGR (HDT90ZFBGRBOX).html