AMD Slashes Ryzen 9 3900X CPU Pricing In The Wake Of Intel's 10th Generation Launch

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AMD has but dropped prices of its AMD Ryzen 9 3900X in a tit-for-tat response to Intel'due south 10th generation launch (via TweakTown). The Ryzen 9 3900X was originally launched at an MSRP of $500 simply is at present available for $420 at Amazon. At $500 and 10 cores, the Intel's flagship Core i9 10900K is priced at roughly $50 per core while the newly priced AMD Ryzen ix 3900X clocks in at just $35 per core.

AMD drops Ryzen R9 3900X cost - as low as $409 on Amazon

AMD's Ryzen R9 390X represents absolutely bully value for gamers at this pricing - assuming you can observe uniform motherboards in stock. The company has been dominating AMD's best selling processors list for quite some time and this is only going to add fuel to the burn. It also begs the question of whether we are about to see the start of a pricing war with Intel should they choose to reply to the price cuts and offer their own channel discounts.

AMD's Ryzen R9 3900X tin can yours for just $420 on Amazon correct now.

The Intel 10900K has an reward over AMD'southward offer in gaming operation (primarily because of the college clock speeds) merely is slower in everything else - making the AMD part a more rounded approach to a build. AMD'southward R9 3900X is a 12-Core / 24-Thread CPU congenital on TSMC'due south 7nm process and featuring the company'southward Zen 2 process. It tin boost up to 4.6GHz and provides excellent value for money at simply $35 per core. The just trouble correct now is that AMD motherboards are flying off the shelves like hotcakes and their availability is sorely limited.

Continue in mind that pricing on Amazon is dynamic then it is unclear to us just how much of the cost drib was given by AMD (in terms of channel discounts) and how much of information technology has already been marked up by Amazon's pricing algorithm. In either instance, it looks similar equally always, it is getting e'er cheaper to own AMD products. With the company planning to launch Zen three after this year, I accept no doubts that nosotros will see pricing for Zen ii based parts get even more affordable as time passes. Now if only the motherboard manufacturers would get their act together then customers tin actually capitalize on the opportunity.