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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2022, @01:33PM
two desktops (web-email / game-and-messaround). one laptop, well actually traveltop. i don't travel alot.
two other computers that have requested privacy ...
network latency trumfs bandwidth? there's something to be said about a slow but near instant build-up of a webpage versus "nothing happens after click", mind wanders "i'm hungry, what's for dinner? did i empty the mailbox yet? i wonder if the bill has arrived yet?" then *boom* it's all there?
not giving money to get to internet twice, so celluar is just dumb-aucustic phone (accident it and i didn't just turn poor), "prison phone" is wifi only. ( via open-wrt on TL-WR902AC)
people who require a reply to a "prison phone" coms apps in less then half a day are too important for me. good luck with your attention span later in life.(*)
wish for more then 1 Gbits (affordable ethernet) soon?
okay i admit, the gps map on the car-computer is cool tho it never gets a update even after oil-change service (/me waves @ toyota) ...i "flew over a river" once :D
(*) i wish they would add the "ding" audio sound you get on smartphones when a push-notice happens to the "dumb phones" so i could manually activate it (in my pocket) to re-capture the attention of the person i am talking to, since it seems talking in person to "smart phone generation" means dealing with a mind that wanders after 3 sentences, their mind sub-consciously anticipating the next "ding" sound?