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AMD's Ryzen 5000 CPUs Get Major Price Cuts, Up to 25 Percent:
AMD's Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) processors are two years old, but the Zen 3 chips are still among some of the best CPUs on the market. If you're looking for your next upgrade, U.S. retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, Micro Center, and Newegg, are currently selling the Ryzen 5000 lineup at reduced prices.
The Ryzen 5000 price cuts are probably an answer to the recently released Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake product stack that has helped Intel recover market share in the Japanese and German markets. While Ryzen 5000 still dominates the list of best-selling processors on Amazon and Newegg, Alder Lake has been creeping up to the Zen 3 parts. For example, the Core i7-12700KF is the seventh best-selling chip on Amazon, whereas the Core i7-12700K is in the third spot on Newegg's charts. Moreover, it's that time of the year when retailers start making space for the next wave of processors.
AMD has already confirmed that Ryzen 7000 (Raphael), Ryzen 5000's successor, will hit the market in the second half of the year, so retailers have likely started to offload Ryzen 5000 parts. Ryzen 7000 lives on the completely new AM5 platform with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support. The transition to the AM5 socket means consumers will have to invest in a new motherboard, although the topic of the memory remains in the air. Intel's Alder Lake supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory modules, but AMD hasn't confirmed if Ryzen 7000 will also have hybrid memory support.
The story continues with a chart of prices for various models and has links to vendors, too.
Random question: Is your primary computer a desktop or a laptop? I've been laptop-only for the last 15-20 years -- my computing needs have been relatively modest.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 04 2022, @03:06AM (3 children)
I am quite certain that my AMD doesn't phone home to intel. I'm almost as certain that it doesn't phone home to AMD. And, it sure as hell doesn't phone home t Microsoft. If it calls home to Linus Torvalds, well, it's sneaky enough for me not to catch it. But, I don't think Torvalds gives a damn what I'm up to while using his OS.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2022, @02:50PM (2 children)
You're aware of Absolute Software's code in your BIOS? Do you know who it's phoning?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 04 2022, @03:43PM (1 child)
https://www.absolut.com/us/mixresponsibly/ [absolut.com]
I have a theory that I could use that for supplemental cooling, but I haven't tested it.
No tattletales anywhere in memory for Absolute Software or Computrace. No sign of my machine calling home to China, despite Bloomberg claims.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_spying/ [theregister.com]
I feel as safe as it is possible to feel safe, with my hardware and software.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 07 2022, @06:22AM
If your OS OpSec is anywhere as pathetic as your social media OpSec, Runaway is owned five ways to Sunday, and doesn't even suspect it yet. Sad, really.