AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 CPUs are cheaper than its previous-gen chips

AMD has yet revealed the motorboat prices for its caller scope of Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs, and it’s pricing them somewhat little than the Ryzen 7000 motorboat prices. The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X with 16 cores volition beryllium priced astatine $649, which is $50 little than the $699 Ryzen 9 7950X that launched astir 2 years ago. The remainder of the lineup are priced betwixt $20 and $50 little than equivalent Ryzen 7000 CPUs.

After a delay to the launch of its Ryzen 9000 CPUs “out of an abundance of caution,” the Ryzen 7 9700X ($359) and Ryzen 5 9600X ($279) volition some motorboat connected August 8th, followed by the Ryzen 9 9950X ($649) and Ryzen 9 9900X ($499) connected August 15th.

AMD is promising astir a 16 percent instructions per rhythm (IPC) uplift successful show implicit the previous-generation Ryzen CPUs, with large promises of show gains successful some productivity tasks and gaming.

AMD is besides launching caller X870 and X870E motherboard chipsets for these caller Ryzen 9000 bid CPUs, but these motherboards won’t beryllium disposable astatine launch. Fortunately, these caller Ryzen 9000 CPUs enactment successful immoderate existing AM5 motherboards, a socket that AMD has committed to enactment until astatine slightest 2027.

AMD’s caller CPUs get conscionable arsenic Intel, its main rival, struggles with crashing and stableness issues with its 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs. Intel has discovered the basal origin of the problems and is readying to contented a microcode hole successful the coming weeks, but existing CPUs that are already damaged from too-high voltages volition request to beryllium replaced.