As if those figures aren’t mind boggling enough, this chip is listed at less than $320. Which comes in at one fourth the cost of its Intel rival, which regularly retails for over $1100. To put the enormity of this into perspective, you would practically be able build an entire high-end gaming machine around the Ryzen 1700 for the same money that would cost you just to get an i7 6900K chip on its own.
AMD’s highest performing Ryzen CPU, the 1800X will retail for less than $499. A piece of information we made public nearly three months ago in our exclusive Ryzen report. So we know that much hasn’t changed since November. What was a bit of a surprise however is the fact that AMD’s 8 core flagship will boost to a whopping 4.0Ghz right out of the box despite a frugal 95W TDP.
It’s almost March 2nd when AMD’s Ryzen officially debuts, and AMD Ryzen 1800x preorders from some etailers are already sold out….Overclocked $500 processor performing better than $1000+ Intel product… That’s gotta hurt…
The AMD Ryzen hype train can’t be stopped. Not long after the upcoming CPUs reached the top of Amazon’s best sellers list, the 1800X has apparently started to sell out at some retailers, including Amazon itself. But fear not–some retailers still have the 1800X and its siblings available for pre-order.
AMD opened pre-orders for the Ryzen lineup just a couple of days ago. Yet the 1800X is currently unavailable from Amazon, which doesn’t know when it will start to sell the product again, and Newegg says it’s out of stock. Both still have the 1700 and 1700X in stock, at least for now. That doesn’t help the Ryzen hopeful looking for the 1800X, though, so where are they supposed to spend their hard-earned cash on the high-end CPU?
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