| hinch said: At under $300 the 12600K/F is looking like the CPU to get for gaming. Its a bit lame they're following AMD's price structure and upping the cost for their 6 core SKU's, but if ADL performs well and outdoes a 5800X in most tasks, including gaming.. this is going to one hell of a comeback from Intel. Of course that doesn't factor in new motherboard costs and DDR5. And power consumption/ cooler. |
I think AMD copied Intel's pricing strategy, not the other way around, and if Intel is now cheaper is only because their products looked so much worse than its counterparts that they had to lower their price to be able to compete again.
And now, Intel thinks that they can go head to head again, and thus are rising the prices to match that thinking.
In any case, yes, overall price of the upgrade will be an important factor, althought you can go with DDR4 memory at first and upgrade later to DDR5 when it becomes more available (I fear there will be shortages of it the first months).
Oh! And let's not forget that AMD has to launch its V-Cache chips that could rise the performance in games up to 15%. That could be enough to surpass the Alder Lake offerings.
Please excuse my bad English.
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