Tuesday, April 19th 2022
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core Processor Now Down to $520-550
AMD's current generation flagship desktop processor, the Ryzen 9 5950X, can be had for a steal, with prices now ranging between $520 and $550. Prices of the 16-core/32-thread processor based on the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, have been on a sharp decline since the launch of the Core i9-12900K "Alder Lake," falling from the $750 launch price to $600 in early-March, with current (late-April) prices looking like $549 on Amazon, and $519 on the venerable MicroCenter website, with even lower prices expected in-store. At $520-550, prices of the 5950X would compare with the Core i9-12900 (non-K), but still be higher than the $385 Core i7-12700K. The 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 5900X can be had for $399 on Newegg.
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40 Comments on AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core Processor Now Down to $520-550
But computers are my hobby and the pc I have now was a dream. So I justified it all by combine getting at least one dream to come true and that it's a hobby and hobbies can be expensive.
So for you to get a 5950X with out getting in trouble. Can your wife even se the difference from a 5950X over a 5900X (i don't know how computer capable she is)?
Else how much more expensive would a used 5950X be with lower price they go for new now and selling your 5900X to differ out the price cost. Just saying.
And yes I am trying to get you in to trouble:p. Well maybe. What's most important, getting in to trouble and for filling a dream or make your wife happy. You deside.
Bah..
And now I'll go back to drooling over the Dark Rock Pro 4 on promo at the moment that I really don't need.....:laugh:
The 5950X is a great CPU, and really efficient on top of that, even though it's slower than the 12900K in ST tasks, it makes up for it by performing similarly to it while using half the power in full loads, but cherry picking one graph where the 5950X wins and calling it "the fastest PC x86-64 processor out there", which also ignores AMD own Threadripper lineup, just looks bad.
On topic: $500 is a good price for the 5950X, about the same price as the 12900F, so you have the choice between a CPU that is a bit faster than the other while using close to half the power in full loads, and one that is less efficient in full load but faster in ST and gaming.
The 5900X still a bit too high in my opinion, for $312 you can get the similar performing at MT tasks 12700F, which at least according to Techspot testing uses about the same amount of power as the 5900X, and is also faster in games and ST tasks. The 5900X for around $300 would be a more competitive.
But anyway, good to see AMD prices finally starting to match Intel. The 5900X costing $450~500 while you could get the 12700F for ~$315 was a joke. Hopefully neither AMD nor Intel overprice their upcoming CPUs, it would be way better to be able to choose between 2 good options, rather than being forced into one because the other is too expensive.
Then, I will pick all the results which show the 5950X as the fastest. It is not only one.
The power consumption:
Ryzen 9 5950X ~ 227 watts
Core i9 12900K ~320 watts
And test results:
Single player gamers --> 5600/5700X/12600/12700F
Single player gamer + Productivity --> 5900X/5950X/12900
60/75/100Hz don't need anything special in the CPU department, but driving a display above 144Hz starts to put a serious burden on the CPU, depending on game. At 240Hz you are going to need to spend more on your CPU in most games.
I play CSGO and DOTA at 200+FPS on a 60hz monitor years ago, you would be crazy to play at 60FPS
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Vice versa, you don't need to push 144FPS in single player game, even when you have 144hz display, Highest visual settings at 60-100FPS are best for single player games.
These prices are indeed very tempting, it really makes me wonder how much better zen4 will be for them to be dumping stock so hard. I mean, it's overdue for processors closing on 1 year and a half on the shelfs that "feel" almost 2 gens behind because AMD skipped a year, but damn. I'm feeling a strong gear acquisition syndrome with these prices but my processor is fine so I'll try to wait for further cuts or leads on zen4 performance