To quote myself. So it turns out AMD's plan was to release the chart topping CPUs with UNLIMITED POWAH and high price tags. Then release slower binned and lower TDP but otherwise identical CPUS at a lower price point later. Now these things with their much lower power and thermals for only small drops in performance look like value kings. Meanwhile in Lisa Su's office... ...just as planned.
The 13400F came out the other day to little fanfare. Which is a shame, because it's really piggin good and only costs 200 notes. And the boards won't give you rectal bleeding either, and you don't need DDR5.
The 13400/13500 look like they could be quite interesting. I’ve seen some comments that they’re actually built on Alder Lake rather than Raptor Lake cores, but if the performance is there at the right price, who really cares?
After this week's 7000X3D series launch, the standard 7700X has received a price cut to $299 https://www.techpowerup.com/304368/amd-ryzen-7-7700x-price-trimmed-to-usd-299
Apparently making it cheaper than the 7700 (non x) which is an odd choice. Presumably the 7700 will receive a price cut also.
I wonder if it will also put downward pressure on the 7600 chips. The 7600X is around the £270 mark at the moment
I think the AM5 platform price is still a long way away from being an appealing option. Fast DDR5 and decent boards are painfully expensive.
A 5700X3D that's the same TDP and stats as the 5800X3D besides clock and boost speeds? Listed at $250? That can't last, you can get a 5800X3D for £262 right now, can't see why you'd take the slower chip.
People must be buying them, a point was raised on GN that a lot of old stock ends up being sold in South America and the Far East, so the market for 'obsolete' parts tails off slower than expected. Similar to how Sony kept making the PS2 for 13 years because someone somewhere kept buying them. Or AMD are sat on mountains of 5800X3ds that didn't quite meet specification. They've got history with stuff like that.
Makes perfect sense tbh. A Ryzen 7600 + a A620 board + 16GB DDR5 are still £400+ So how do you stop budget sensitive owners of old lower end Ryzen cpus like Ryzen 1400, 2500, 3300x etc from upgrading to something like an i3-13100F? You sell them a 5700X3D that will work with their current mobo, ram and cooler.
I’m half surprised they haven’t added new APUs for AM4. That would be a great option for budget gaming having seen what the RDNA3 GPu cores can do in my little minisforum PC.
The 'little phoenix' ones [8300g and 8500g] look like e-waste in waiting good for office fodder and little else. Only providing 2 lanes to an SSD and only 4 to a gpu should you elect to add one later [if gigabyte's support pages are to be believed]. At $170 [? so £170 once conversions and VAT happen] the 8500 doesn't even have thee redeeming quality of being [that] cheap.
True, and I’m very keen to see the reviews of those given the increased power budget, but they also mean buying into the AM5 platform. If there was a drop in upgrade for the 5600/5700G, or for people to reuse existing AM4 platforms/buy second-hand, AMD could pretty much corner the market in budget gaming.
