Finest Purchase Briefly Lists AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs: From $279 to $599

Though AMD delayed launch of its Ryzen 9000-series processors based mostly on the Zen 5 microarchitecture from July 31, to early and mid-August, the corporate’s associate (and main US retailer) Finest Purchase briefly started itemizing the brand new CPUs at this time, revealing a really believable set of launch costs. As per the retailer’s product catalog, probably the most inexpensive unlocked Zen 5-based processor will price $279, whereas the highest-performing Zen 5-powered CPU will price $599 at launch.

AMD will begin its Ryzen 9000 sequence rollout from comparatively cheap six-core Ryzen 5 9600X and eight-core Ryzen 7 9700X on August 8. Per the Finest Purchase itemizing, the Ryzen 5 9600X will price $279, whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X will carry a really useful price ticket of $359. In the meantime, The extra superior 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X and 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X will hit the market on August 15 at MSRPs of $449 and $599, respectively, based mostly on the Finest Purchase itemizing.

AMD Ryzen 9000 Collection Processors Zen 5 Microarchitecture (Granite Ridge)
AnandTech	Cores / Threads	Base Freq	Turbo Freq	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	TDP	MSRP
Ryzen 9 9950X	16C / 32T	4.3GHz	5.7GHz	16 MB	64 MB	170 W	$599
Ryzen 9 9900X	12C / 24T	4.4GHz	5.6GHz	12 MB	64 MB	120 W	$449
Ryzen 7 9700X	8C / 16T	3.8GHz	5.5GHz	8 MB	32 MB	65 W	$359
Ryzen 5 9600X	6C / 12T	3.9GHz	5.4GHz	6 MB	32 MB	65 W	$279

It’s noteworthy that when in comparison with the launch costs of the Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors, the brand new Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 CPUs are available in cheaper. The vary topping Ryzen 9 5950X began at $799 in 2020, whereas the Ryzen 9 7950X had a really useful $699 price ticket in 2022. In contrast, the top-end Ryzen 9 9950X is listed at $599. Each Ryzen 7 5600X and Ryzen 7 7600X price $299 at launch, whereas the upcoming Ryzen 5 9600X will apparently be priced at $279 at launch.

As all the time with unintended retailer listings, it needs to be emphasised that AMD has not but introduced official pricing for his or her Ryzen 9000 CPUs. Given Finest Purchase’s standing as one of many largest US electronics retailers, these costs carry a really excessive chance of being correct; however none the much less, they need to be taken with a grain of salt – if solely as a result of last-minute worth adjustments aren’t unparalleled with new CPU launches.