AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Processors Get Official Pricing:
Official Costs Coming Soon!
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Article Written by: Tim Ness
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series
AMD’s new 9000 series desktop processors based on the Zen 5 CPU architecture finally have some official prices, coming to you via now-removed Best Buy web pages. Links to these pages were still visible using search engines as of this writing, but the pages have now been taken down for the time being.
Pricing for the new CPUs listed seems to be as follows:
Ryzen 9 – 9950X: $599
Ryzen 9 – 9700X: $549
Ryzen 7 – 9700X: $359
Ryzen 5 – 9600X: $279
By comparison, Intel's top of the range Core i9 14900K and Core i9 13900K CPUs are listed at $619 and $689 respectively on Best Buy’s website, though it’s worth noting that you may be able to get them at a slightly lower cost depending on what website you use and where you can find them in stock. It’s also however worth noting that Intel’s latest generation CPUs have had plenty of bad press recently due to stability issues during gaming, resulting in both consumers and professionals, such as Dylan Browne, Unreal Engine supervisor at Model Farm, looking to switch over to AMD. Dylan Browne can be quoted as saying on social media platform ‘X’ in a post on July 23rd that they will be switching to AMD’s 9950x CPUs due to what he described as 50% failure rate, and in a follow-up post, added that they may be using ROG series ASUS motherboards to pair with them. Intel has also not issued an official recall on their affected CPUs as of this writing but an Intel community member, employee Thomas Hannaford, said that microcode inside the processors are elevating voltage, causing the issues, and a microcode update, which is expected to arrive in mid-August, should be a solution to this problem.
However, Intel community manager Lex Hoyos cited instability reports possibly related to an oxidization manufacturing issue with “early Intel Core 13th Gen desktop processors” that was remedied at some point in 2023, and official details of Intel's investigations into the instability issues as a whole are sparse, and multiple owners citing issues want answers, and serial numbers, to help track down the problem chips and get a replacement or refund. At this time, Intel is directing its customers to contact customer service individually for solutions while the investigations continue. Coincidentally, the above mentioned microcode update will be here right around the time that the new AMD CPUs launch, reported to be August 8th-15th depending on the specific model, which may be bad news for Intel, especially with their next generation of processors rumored not to be released until later this year or possibly even early 2025. Keep an eye out for follow up articles from PCBoss as news develops.
Tim Ness
Tim is an original contributor to PCBoss with nearly 3 decades of experience with PC building, and even more experience with gaming across multiple platforms. He has a background with both written and YouTube video reviews of AAA titles. Majoring in Computer Science, he loves just about all things tech.
