News AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D Is Currently Cheaper Than the 7950X

[Admin]

AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D is now on sale for a blisteringly cheap $556. Making it less expensive than the standard 7950X and just $5 more than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D.

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[-Fran-]

Let the Ryzens hit the floor.
Let the Ryzens hit the floor.
Let the Ryzens hit the floor.
Let the Ryzens hit the... FLOOOOOOR.

Sorry, but it was necessary.

Regards 😀

 

[oofdragon]

Honestly.. I never understood why so many choices. You want to priorize gaming? 7800X3D (gaming processor). You want to priorize work? 7950X (productivity). You want to save? 7600X (cheapest). There.. 6 cores, 8 cores, 12 cores. it could even be called Ryzen 7006, 7008, 7012, and the boxes would be different colors like 7008 RYZEN GAMER or something like that lol. My two cents though .. 99% of the time you won't notice the difference between a 7600X and a 7800X3D when gaming. Their difference be like 60fps vs 72fps.. 200vs240fps.. you can't possible tell which is which in a blind test, no one can. But productivity.... you can definetly tell a 7600X from a 7950X. So I'm the end the choice of which processor in my opinion is: how much do you code, Photoshop etc? None? Go.for.the 5600X and use the extra on a better GPU. There. If you are rich and already got the 4090, then go for the 7800X3D why not, you want the ultimate ultra fps performer even if it doesn't matter again because at 4K and max settings again you won't tell from a 5600X for sure, but you want to spend to have "the feeling" of the ultimate machine yeah go for it. But that's it, there's no difference. I would argue right now the 5600X3D is the ultimate performer because.. at $200 it plays just like the 7800X3D 99% of your games, so go for the cheapest when you want a cpu JUST for gaming and be happy

 

[DSzymborski]

Honestly.. I never understood why so many choices.

That's an easy one. Binning. Because of the inability to make truly identical parts in semiconductor fabrication, CPUs and RAM modules all have different levels of defects. A 5600X, on a fundamental level, is just a defective 5950X that isn't too defective to work as a 5600X. And that leaves them with all sorts of CPUs in the middle. And it's better to be able to sell those as a 5700X or a 5800X or a 5900X for more money than fuse off more cores and go straight to a 5600X.