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ShopBLT in the US, and Kikatek in the UK, let slip pricing details a bit early.
http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/102322-uk-us-prices-amd-r7-ryzen-processors-spotted/
VideoCardz reports that in the US an outfit called ShopBLT (sounds like a sandwich shop) has published a trio of R7 Ryzen chip prices, with some other accompanying details. [...] The absolute top end AMD Ryzen 7 1800X is currently listed at US$490, the Ryzen 7 1700X at $381, and the Ryzen 7 1700 at $316. Remember US prices don't usually include state tax which varies depending where you live.
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In the UK we have a screenshot of a listing of Ryzen CPUs from trade seller Ingram Micro. These listed processors seem to have been taken down, but luckily VideoCardz took a snap. You can see the top end 4GHz AMD Ryzen 7 1800X was listed at GBP £365, the Ryzen 7 1700X at £283, and the Ryzen 7 1700 at £235. These are ex-VAT prices so you have to add 20 per cent, unfortunately. That makes the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X £438 by my calculations. In the listings WOF seems to mean 'without fan'.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by rleigh on Saturday February 11 2017, @07:55PM
Exactly this. While people go crazy over single-threaded benchmarks, I specifically bought an AMD FX-8350 despite its "bad" single-threaded performance and power consumption because I valued having 8 cores for building stuff and doing complex computation. Single-threaded performance might be "poor", but I really don't care that much. If it does things slower but 8 times in parallel, I'm still getting better performance overall. If the new CPUs have 16 threads then if it offers a concrete benefit, I'll definitely look at upgrading.
The other thing people often forget is how amazing all modern CPUs are. When comparing CPU benchmarks, the graphs are often badly scaled, missing out the zero point, to show the relative variance but not the absolute scale; when observed as absolute values from zero the differences would appear to be minimal in some cases, yet people get massively worked up over the minor differences.