I7 6900k could drop down in price before AMD Ryzen release?

[monk_mingus]

Any info about this?

I just started a new build and my cup choice is i7 6900k. I saw the Ryzen presentation and read some forums, and you can see how people are enthusiastic about it...you read people thinking to wait until Q1 2017 to try these new AMD cpu's...so do u guys think Intel could drop prices before 2017 as a business strategy?

 

[Barty1884]

I'm going to assume you meant "guys"? You might want to edit your post.

Intel won't reduce any pricing unless they have to - and AMD have a lot of making up to do.
Unless AMD come to the table really strong, with competitive pricing, Intel really have no reason to lower their prices.

Even if Ryzen performs as AMD claim it will, Intel's prices won't necessarily drop, and certainly won't drop overnight. It wouldn't be until they started to lose a decent chunk of market share that would force their hand.

 

[Faktion]

Agreed.

 

[monk_mingus]

I'm going to assume you meant "guys"? You might want to edit your post.

Intel won't reduce any pricing unless they have to - and AMD have a lot of making up to do.
Unless AMD come to the table really strong, with competitive pricing, Intel really have no reason to lower their prices.

Even if Ryzen performs as AMD claim it will, Intel's prices won't necessarily drop, and certainly won't drop overnight. It wouldn't be until they started to lose a decent chunk of market share that would force their hand.

Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the bad spelling. I edited it. As you can imagine English is not my main language.

 

[Fadel_]

I would definetly wait especially now taht the prices came out so low with more performance and i would consider switching to the ryzen 1800x because of better performance and lower price and a lot of mb`s are going to be available so xou have great choice

 

[1LiquidPC]

Even if Ryzen does indeed match the 6900k in real-world performance, Intel would never match prices. They would lower them, but not that low. This has happened before when Athlon 64s came out. Even with AMD beating Intel back then, Pentium 4 EE and higher ends chips still were very expensive.

 

[Fadel_]

Even if Ryzen does indeed match the 6900k in real-world performance, Intel would never match prices. They would lower them, but not that low. This has happened before when Athlon 64s came out. Even with AMD beating Intel back then, Pentium 4 EE and higher ends chips still were very expensive.

true thats why i think he should wait for independent benchmarks and if it really reaches whats promised (10% more performance or even same) I think he should go with amd because for the Price of the I7 he could buy CPU+MB+RAM


my conclusion in this is : Wait especially because this evening the benchmarks from all Youtubers are coming (they recieved all the parts this morning)