Rumour alert everyone. It appears that AMD’s high-end Ryzen CPU will actually cost less than $500. This model will compete with Intel’s Core i7-6900K and if this rumour is actually true, AMD will be offering its competitor at half the price.
AMD’z Ryzen 7 1800X is currently listed at $490 USD and 480 GBP, while Ryzen 7 1700X is priced at $382 or 375 GBP. On the other hand, AMD’s Ryzen 7 1700 is rumoured to be priced at $317 or 312 GBP.
As said, this is just a rumour so take it with a grain of salt. However, and if AMD manages to offer its CPUs at these prices, we’re all in for a treat.
AMD will launch its Ryzen CPUs in early March, so stay tuned for more!
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Those are practically confirmed prices, one of the most popular spanish websites (elchapuzasinformatico dot com) got the exclusive last night too.
– R7 1800X 4.0 GHz 8 cores, 16 threads. Will compete with i7-6900K. 599€
– R7 1700X 3.8 GHz 8 cores, 16 threads. For professional use. 469.99€.
– R7 1700 3.7 GHz 8 cores, 16 threads. 65W TDP. For gamers. 389.95€.
Nothing is known yet regarding 6 and 4 cores CPUs.
600€=641$ 641$ is not 500$ some1 is wrong here
Nothing is wrong here, components are more expensive in Europe.
Im just waiting for the new dirty approach of intel this time.
Buy all benchmarks, buy MS, buy HP, DELL, Lenovo…
At least on MS and HP i think this isn’t gonna happen.
Hoping for the best performance here and if it comes out matching or beating Intel performance, it will be great to see those overpriced CPUs take a plunder in price.
It’s actually ridiculous what intel is charging nowadays on their processors.
I feel your pain bro
It’ll be close, but wouldn’t expect it to completely match. However at that price, worth it.
Intel’s best cpu for gaming (the i7 7700k) is sub $400, how is that ridiculously priced? You can get a i5 7600k for less than $250 that will match the 7700k in gaming with every gpu below the GTX 1070. The price of the above two cpu’s are in line with what AMD is charging for their current (underperforming) FX processors so I don’t see what your going on about.
Intel’s $1000+ cpu’s are aimed at business and professionals not gamers. Because you can’t afford them doesn’t make them over priced.
6+ cores should have gone mainstream a while back. The fact they cost $1000 shows how ridiculous it is. It’s been nothing but stagnation for years now since AMD became nonexistent in the CPU space.
Good, because at half the price, I’d be more than willing to go for their high end, especially since Intel’s latest will support just Win 10 which leaves me with just AMD for future CPU choices.
I thought AMD was on board with that Windows 10 policy as well?
they are
Not completely, not unless both want to completely and utterly screw over the other half that still use win 7-8.
They will not supply win 7 drivers.
W7 is over 7 years old! Microsoft will not add any new features – means no proper support for new HW as well! It is part of extended support policy microsoft has for years. Nothing AMD nor intel could do about that.
AMD has announced they will not supply win 7 drivers. Its more of a microsoft thing than it is AMD. Although the chips MIGHT work with Win 7, it may be unstable as we’re seeing with Kaby lake resulting in GSOD and wonky operation.
Ah well, guess I’ll be sticking the the last line that’s on offer, because I am in no way touching win 10 with a ten foot pole, and before anyone asks, yes I’ve tried it, twice.
Personally love win 10. ShutUp10 to turn off all the data hog with QTTabBar and setup the most used apps in the start menu and off we go!
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Competitive CPU pricing… it’s been so long.
no way this is real, but i hope it is… i really do…
There’s also a rumor about intel being in full panic mode. They’re going to respin their kaby lake series with higher clock models and… wait for it… they’ll add hyperthreading to their i5 line. Higher clocks ok, but HT in i5 models? What’s the point in an i7 beyond more cache?
If true, that’s messed up.
It’s not like they haven used HT on i5’s before though.
The Core i5 650 for instance was a dual core with hyper-threading, released in 2010. It was a mobile part though iirc.
That’s right, it happened a lot in mobile parts. But it’s strange to see in the desktop segment though.
That news was already confirmed yesterday. You’re a little late with your “prediction”… Nice try though… Kreskin.
I read that on Guru3d three days ago, genius. I also would like you to quote the part where I say I ‘predict’ something.
Sold.
480 POUNDS are 600 dollar/euros! I know European hardware prices are F’d but JESUS. Over a hundred dollar/euro difference?? It’s bad enough when they take the dollar price and just switch the currency symbol to euros. Doing that with pounds? That’s just straight-up insane!
USA listed prices do not include VAT, as sales tax is added after according to what each state/city imposes.
UK and EU listed prices always include VAT, anything between 19 to 24% depending on country, so that’s where the extra hundred comes from.
thank you!
people always think Europeans are getting screwed in prices (which they usually are) but the real reason is the stupid American tax system
damn 19-24%? that’s outright theft
keep the current VAT system then, confusing it might be
but VAT should not be higher than 9% in the US
I still don’t think you’re getting it bud… The VAT has NOTHING to do with the US. It’s an EU tax (Value Added Tax). When purchasing things from the US and importing them into Canada for instance there is NO VAT. Blame the EU not the States on that one…
There is nothing uniquely “EU” about VAT. No matter what it is called, it’s a sales tax, most USA states impose plenty of their own. If the USA ever impose a federal sales tax, it will be the same as VAT, regardless of what they will call it – and the rate will probably be far more reasonable since the US aren’t quite as insane as the EU when imposing taxes, but that is besides the point.
I am aware of the fact that VAT is used in more than just the EU… But in THIS case we are talking about purchasing these CPUs in the EU (or I suppose GB which is in the process of leaving the EU…). The US has no VAT or anything like it. I live in Canada and purchase things from the States all the time. There is NO separate tax that needs to be paid when purchasing from the States. Same goes for purchasing things in Canada that have been manufactured in the States. There is no simile to the VAT in NA.
I must admit I don’t know much about Canada’s tax law. If you don’t have a local sales tax then you are obviously at an advantage when buying from US stores that always list prices without any sales tax.
BUT, if you lived in California instead of Canada, you’d have to pay an additional 7.25% sales tax on buying a Ryzen CPU (or anything else save for food and prescription drugs), 6.00% of which goes to the state of California and 1.25% to the actual city. That 1.25% is the mandatory minimum, each city/municipality is free to impose more, so in some California cities the total sales tax can go as high as 9.75%. And that’s just one example, most US states have something similar. So saying there is nothing like VAT in North America is simply not true, when it comes to the US it’s just handled at a local/state level instead of a national/federal one.