AMD's new Ryzen 9950X and 9900X CPUs are already heavily discounted below MSRP

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AMD's Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs just hit the market earlier this month and now the top two SKUs are already on big sales at Amazon. Having debuted with a $649 MSRP, the 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X is now down to either $559 or $623 depending on whether you are comfortable buying from a third-party Amazon seller or if you prefer getting the chip from Amazon itself.

The 12-core, 24-thread Ryzen 9 9900X is now down to $449 after having started at $499 just a couple of weeks ago. Both of these are all-time lows for the new chips,

When we reviewed the Ryzen 9 9950X a few weeks ago, we were impressed with its multithreaded productivity performance, but a little disappointed in its gaming prowess as it trailed Intel's top chip, the Core i9 14900K and AMD's last-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D (because of the 3D cache).

However, it still performed well in gaming and it led the pack in multi-threaded. The Ryzen 9 9900X wasn't far behind.

Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X multi-threaded performance

However, if you're looking to save money, the last-gen Ryzen 9 7950X goes for just $451 right now and it has the same 16 cores and 32 threads as the 9950X. The Ryzen 9 7900X, which has 12 cores and 24 threads like the 9900X, is now $319. Both provide really good productivity performance and solid gaming.

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