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AMD’s fast Ryzen 9 5900X CPU has hit new lows at Amazon UKUpdate: Now £453, nearly £60 under RRP!
Update: Now £453, nearly £60 under RRP!
Update:The price has dropped further on the 5900X, with the chipnow costing £453at Amazon. Original article continues below…
The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is the company’s latest high-end consumer processor, offering 12 cores and 24 threads using theincredibly fast Zen 3 design. AMD’s latest generation CPUs have made incredible strides against Intel*, and are now often the best choice for both gaming and content creation - an unthinkable situation just five years ago when Ryzen first launched.
The 5900X has been the hardest Ryzen 5000 model to find at a good price, thanks to low supply and incredible demand, but today you can pick one up for a significant discount - £43 below RRP, or £466.92. That’s a great price for a CPU of this quality, especially in the middle of a silicon shortage.
Get the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X for £466.92 (was £509.99)
Note that this model comes from Amazon’s EU arm, but the cost of import duty and shipping isincluded in the price- and you may even be partially refunded if the duty ends up being lower than expected. Either way, I’ve ordered plenty of items through Amazon EU, including Ryzen processors, and I’ve never had any problems.
*AMD has gone from being OK at content creation but rubbish at games with Ryzen 1000, then good at content creation but only OK with games with Ryzen 3000, and now with Ryzen 5000 it’s excellent at both. Intel still holds the lead in a few games, but AMD is now the de facto gaming champion - and that’s a wild state of affairs given how little competition AMD has mustered for years and years, especially at the top end.
So why would you consider the 5900X? Well, it sits opposite the Core i9 10900K and 11900K, so if you are lucky enough to have a big budget for your gaming or work PC build, then it’s natural to consider both high-end options. Its higher core count is fine for games, some of which are able to put all those cores and threads to work, but really shines in content creation. Tasks like rendering a 3D scene or transcoding video is easily parallelisable - you can split it easily into as many chunks as you want and then combine the results later - so there’s a pretty linear relationship between more cores and higher performance.
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