The Ryzen 5800X originally launched a year ago for $449. But now Micro Center has slashed the CPU’s price down to $299, which caused the product to sell out.
With Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs here and receiving positive reviews, could price cuts be on the horizon for AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips? Last week, electronics retailer Micro Center began offering a huge discount on AMD’s Ryzen 5800X 8-core chip by slashing the original cost from $449 all the way down to $299. The $150 discount brought the 5800X down to the original price for AMD’s Ryzen $5600x, a less powerful processor with only six CPU cores. As a result, the deal was so good it caused the product to temporarily sell out at Micro Center stores.
