Following some welcome discounts on its GPUs, namely, the RX 7900 XT, GRE, and the 7700 XT, AMD has also dropped price of the 12-core Ryzen 5900X to its lowest ever. The 16-core 5950X is cheap too.
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AMD and Nvidia both have seen price drops on GPUs recently. The situation is similar on the CPU side as well. Currently, both the AM5-based Ryzen 9 7900X3D and the AM4-based Ryzen 9 5950X are on sale.
Although AMD just expanded its AM5 lineup with the first desktop APUs, its previous socket AM4 platform is now getting far cheaper with the 16-core Ryzen 5950X selling at its lowest ever.
Geekbench 5 score of the upcoming Intel 16 core 24 thread Core i7-13700K Raptor Lake CPU has leaked. The chip is able to beat the flagship Ryzen 9 5950X from AMD quite easily in single core.
AMD's Ryzen 5000 CPU series is affordable as never before, with discounts reaching up to 43%, allowing you to save up to $250. You can get a powerful 16-core or more affordable 6-core CPU for less.
Almost the entire AMD Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 series lineup, the Ryzen 5950X, 5900X, 5800X, 5600X, as well as the APUs Ryzen 5700G and 5600G are currently selling at a massive discount.
AMD's current Zen 3 flagship, the 16 core 32 thread Ryzen 9 5950X and its smaller sibling, the 12 core 24 thread Ryzen 9 5900X are currently on major discounts across multiple online retail sites.
Cinebench numbers for the binned Core i9-12900KS show that it can easily outpace the top-end AMD Ryzen 9 5950X even in multi-threaded situation. And in single-threaded test, the gap is even bigger.