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JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

I'm fairly sure that the 9900X and 9950X will be cheaper at launch than the 7900X and 7950X did at their launch, and the 7950X was already cheaper then than the 5950X when that one launched. That being said, I'm not sure about the pricing of the 9700X and 9600X, could be that those will be the same price or even slightly more expensive than their Zen 4 counterparts, bringing the prices of the chips closer together.

They could certainly do that, although I hope they don't. AMD has been slowly forgetting about the lower end market that kept them alive for so many years, and they need to have something other than their -G APUs.

I'm still hoping that AMD will produce a smaller chip with just 6 Zen5c cores (and either a simplified, smaller IO die to go along with this or without a chiplet design so it could also be used in entry-level mobile chips) for lower-end Ryzen 5, Ryzen 3 and Athlon CPUs. So basically what they did with the 7x20 but with Zen 5c instead of Zen 2 (and possibly a somewhat bigger GPU).