Intel i9 officially announced

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

I actually called this a while ago where I said intel would be either lowering their current gen cpu prices or their next gen cpu prices to match Ryzen + $100 or so due to increased performance and features and bam. There it is!

1600X $250 - i9 7800X $390
1800X $500 - i9 7820X $600 (-$400 from 6900k price)

Now this doesn't mean it's the end for Ryzen and RIP Amd. This just means this shit is just getting started. All of the i9 cpus are on intel's HEDT platform which are generally more expensive than their mainstream lineup but granted with good reason. The cpu's are of course also more expensive. Depending on what you are doing and what your budget is, buying a Ryzen 7 1700 for $330 + OC to 3.8-4ghz should net you very similar performance to the $600 i9 7820X assuming you don't need the extra features and it also goes for their Ryzen 1600.

So Ryzen will still continue to offer a competitive price point and fairly competitive performance but something like this does continue to lower a justification for AMD's Ryzen 1800X due to how much of a better value the 1700 is and how close of a price point the i9 7820X is.

All in all, we are back to the core wars gentz and it is gonna be fap worthy. When AMD announces their APUs, I suggest the ps5/x2 people pay attention.