01/20/2023 at 2:41 p.m. by Thilo Bayer – The development of the euro also affects the CPU prices. There are currently some processors at historically lowest prices.
For some time now, the development of the euro has played into the hands of buyers of CPUs and graphics cards: the strength of the euro against the US dollar means that some CPUs are cheaper than ever.
Strong euro good for CPU prices
At the beginning of the week we reported that the Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 7000 were continuing to drop in price. If you look at the PCGH price comparison at the end of the week, the low prices are still noticeable. The top seller remains the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 3D stack cache, which is currently offered at Mindfactory for the best price of 339 euros. It doesn’t have much to do with the RRP of originally 489 euros, the CPU, which is also very popular in the PCGH community, is now more than 30 percent cheaper. A subsequently delivered AM4 CPU also sits in second place, namely the eight-core Ryzen 7 5700X. Mindfactory once again offers the best price at 189 euros. At the launch in April 2022, the RRP was 299 euros, so it went down a whopping 37 percent. The price of number 3, the Core i5-13600KF, remains stable at a good 313 euros.
The next AM4 eight-core processor, the Ryzen 7 5800X, recently dropped significantly in price and has now leveled off at a good 232 euros (MF). We’re talking about halving the RRP here: Originally, AMD wanted 449 euros for the 5800X, none of the faster Zen 3 CPUs have aged worse in terms of price.
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Prices for Ryzen 7000 still strange
The price of the Ryzen 7000 series is still pretty wild. The original Euro RRPs, which gave cause for criticism at the launch of the Zen 4 CPUs, have been pulverized. Across the board, all Ryzen 7000 X CPUs are now a good 30 percent cheaper than when they were released at the end of September. A Ryzen 5 7600X no longer costs 359 euros, but 249 euros. The Ryzen 7 7700X is 135 euros cheaper, the Ryzen 9 7900X an impressive 203 euros and the Ryzen 9 7950X at least 230 euros. The new Ryzen 7000 without X, on the other hand, are “only” a good seven percent below the announced RRP, which then ensures that there are no significant price differences between 7600 and 7600X and 7700 and 7700X. At Mindfactory, the 7700 currently costs more at 346 euros than the 7700X at 344 euros. That is absurd. Between 7900 and 7900X it is also only 16 euros at the moment.