AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Flagship Processor Slides Down to $565 to Greet the i9-14900KS

[btarunr]

AMD's flagship desktop processor, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, saw an impressive retailer-level price-cut, sending its street-price down to $565 on Newegg, or nearly $135 (19%) below its launch price of $700. The processor is listed at $595, but a $30 discount coupon sends the price down to $565. It's not just Newegg, even Amazon US has the chip listed at $591, with a $26 discount coupon sending it down to $565. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D is about 1% slower than the 7800X3D at gaming, but is still about as fast as the Core i9-14900K at gaming; and its 8 additional "Zen 4" cores helps shore up productivity performance over the 7800X3D.

Price-cuts to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D can be seen as a move to greet last week's launch of the Intel Core i9-14900KS, an enthusiast-magnet for its up to 6.20 GHz clock-speeds, and overclocking headroom; but in our testing, the new chip barely beats the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in gaming; although is 2% faster than the regular i9-14900K at both gaming- and productivity.



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[Divide Overflow]

Competition is a wonderful thing for consumers!

 

[Philaphlous]

Feels like the only thing dropping in price is tech and specifically AMD products.....
Kinda makes it hard to justify new tech purchases when I'm spending over $1K a month on groceries for 2 people...

 

[Chaitanya]

Compared to 7800x3D neither of those 2 are worth spending extra for those who are going to be using their PCs just for gaming.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Miners didn't clear out stock like the 7950x ?
Damn guess they will now hehe

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Imagine if AMD could come up with something like a 7850X3D with higher clocks. Instead of lowering prices, they could have a KS moment of their own.

 

[mkppo]

I don't get it, the 7800X3D clearly beats the 14900KS in your own TPU review, why do you say the 14900KS barely beats a 7800X3D in gaming? It's flipped the other way around mate, and it's not even barely but almost 6% at 720p.

Imagine if AMD could come up with something like a 7850X3D with higher clocks. Instead of lowering prices, they could have a KS moment of their own.

This won't do anything as the 7800X3D is already the fastest gaming CPU by a margin and those higher clocks will not do much if anything for productivity

 

[SSGBryan]

Feels like the only thing dropping in price is tech and specifically AMD products.....
Kinda makes it hard to justify new tech purchases when I'm spending over $1K a month on groceries for 2 people...

$125 per person, per week?

What are you doing - eating an endangered species every meal?

 

[ltkAlpha]

"[...] but in our testing, the [14900KS] barely beats the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in gaming"
It does?

Intel Core i9-14900KS Review - The Last of its Kind

The Intel Core i9-14900KS reaches impressive clock frequencies up to 6.2 GHz, which yields remarkable performance in applications and gaming. However, this comes at the cost of serious power consumption, especially if you go beyond stock, where we saw over 500 W during testing.

www.techpowerup.com

Intel Core i9-14900KS Review - The Last of its Kind

The Intel Core i9-14900KS reaches impressive clock frequencies up to 6.2 GHz, which yields remarkable performance in applications and gaming. However, this comes at the cost of serious power consumption, especially if you go beyond stock, where we saw over 500 W during testing.

www.techpowerup.com

Intel Core i9-14900KS Review - The Last of its Kind

The Intel Core i9-14900KS reaches impressive clock frequencies up to 6.2 GHz, which yields remarkable performance in applications and gaming. However, this comes at the cost of serious power consumption, especially if you go beyond stock, where we saw over 500 W during testing.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[JAB Creations]

"but is still about as fast as the Core i9-14900K"

You mean "while the Core i9-14900K is almost as fast until your house burns down the..."

 

[Minus Infinity]

Imagine if AMD could come up with something like a 7850X3D with higher clocks. Instead of lowering prices, they could have a KS moment of their own.

From what I've read Zen 5 is already faster than Zen 4 X3D for gaming and no clock speed penalties and great productivity scores to boot. I know what I'm waiting for. I do hope though Zen 5 X3D shows more improvements on clocks, but IMO it'll be Zen 6 that makes most sense for X3D.

 

[Zendou]

The only thing to take into consideration is that both the 7950X3D and the 7900X3D suffer from issue when it comes to parking the wrong side of the chip. It is similar to with Intel and the scheduler not assigning tasks to the right cores. If anyone is going to get an X3D chip, go for the one where it has only one chiplet with the V cache like the 5800X3D or the 7800X3D and save yourself the headache.