[News] AMD Announces Official Price-Cuts for Ryzen Processors

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/240383/a...zen-processors

Following its Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G socket AM4 APU announcement, AMD announced price cuts for its Ryzen family of processors, across the board. These are official price cuts, and not seasonal retailer discounts. The price cuts have been made in a bid to make its existing socket AM4 Ryzen processors more competitive against 8th generation Intel Core "Coffee Lake" processors.

Among the notable changes, are bringing the entire Ryzen 7-series lineup under the $350-mark, with the 1800X being priced at $349, the 1700X at $309, and the 1700 non-X at $299. These changes make the three competitive against the Core i7-8700K (which is scraping the $400-mark in many places), and the i7-8700 non-K (around $330). The Ryzen 5-series six-core parts also receive much-needed price-cuts to make them competitive against the Core i5 six-core SKUs, such as the i5-8600K and i5-8400. There are marginal changes in the Ryzen 3 series and Ryzen Threadripper series. All price cuts are tabled below.

[AliG]

1700x at $309 is a steal. I was planning on waiting for Ryzen 2 to upgrade, but that's a bargain.

[kromosto]

If they had announced it before black friday probably today I am a 1800x owner instead of 8700k

[zanzabar]

1700x at $309 is a steal. I was planning on waiting for Ryzen 2 to upgrade, but that's a bargain.

if you want it for games the ryzen+ might clock over 4ghz, the current chips are lack luster for gaming builds due to the low clock speeds. they are great for workstations, but meh for games.

[StAndrew]

I wonder if AMD is just twisting the knife into Intel after the Meltdown meltdown...

[AliG]

if you want it for games the ryzen+ might clock over 4ghz, the current chips are lack luster for gaming builds due to the low clock speeds. they are great for workstations, but meh for games.

Yeah that's why I held off Ryzen initially. Great architecture, but it had a few glaring issues with SSE instructions and clockspeeds. Figured I'd wait for the next gen - but these prices still look awfully attractive.

[drmrlordx]

AMD is doing this to get product out of the channel in preparation for Ryzen 2's launch in April.