The state of demand combined with a mixed reception seems to push AMD in the race to lower prices for its new line of Ryzen 7000 CPUs based on Zen 4. In addition to the economic situation, we must recognize that the reds are graced with many banana skins since the launch. Recently, it is the new X3D series that has been in the news with overheating problems. Nevertheless, we can’t say that this generation is bad overall, on the contrary. However, it suffers from a complicated price positioning due to the change of socket and the obligation to equip with DDR5. A painful combo for many potential users.
Ryzen 7000: AMD condemned to price cuts and promotions?
So AMD has launched a promotional race to maintain its position and get its new platform adopted. Thus, some price adjustments were first observed on the Ryzen 7000X3D series. But a few hours ago, on the North American continent, it’s the Ryzen 7 7700X that starts to move significantly. For the record, this is an 8-core processor that has already fallen well since its launch. In the last few hours at Amazon and Newegg, a series of promotions with coupons has brought the price below $300 ($295 exactly). Since this promotion results in the same final price at these two big distributors, it is likely that this operation is directly driven by AMD. It is therefore not unreasonable to think that the trend will also arrive in the next few days in Europe. We therefore invite you to watch the prices with the utmost attention. For the moment, the 7700X is available just under 360€.
