Ryzen 7000: Very high prices with DDR5 RAM and motherboard?

Tonight the time had finally come and AMD presented its new processor generation Ryzen 7000 and also named prices in US dollars. Looking at the MSRP prices at launch, the Ryzen 9 5950X was 100 euros more expensive at 799 US dollars (currently €539 at Mindfactory) than the all-new Ryzen 9 7950X at $699. Ryzen 9 7900X vs Ryzen 9 5900X MSRP prices (currently €399 at Mindfactory) have remained the same at $549. The same applies to the Ryzen 5 7600X, which like its predecessor Ryzen 5 5600X (currently €189 at Mindfactory) will cost $299. The Ryzen 7 7700X, on the other hand, now costs 50 US dollars less at 399 US dollars, because for the Ryzen 7 5800X (currently €299 at Mindfactory) also with eight CPU cores was called 449 US dollars. Despite high inflation, there are no price premiums at AMD. But for a system change you now also need a new mainboard and, above all, the expensive DDR5 memory. This could make switching to Ryzen 7000 an expensive pleasure.

Ryzen 7000 prices cheap, conversion still expensive?

So far we only know the prices for the Ryzen 7000 CPUs in US dollars. Due to the bad euro/dollar exchange rate, which is now absolutely identical and US prices are always without VAT, one can assume that the euro prices are slightly higher than the US dollar figures. In the article above, we mentioned comparison prices for Mindfactory, the currently cheapest provider. Accordingly, a Ryzen 9 5950X at 539 euros, it is more than 160 euros cheaper than a Ryzen 9 7950X. With the 7900X it is at least 150 euros. The calculation becomes interesting if you also take into account the required DDR5-5200 RAM. This is significantly more expensive than the previously recommended DDR4-3200 memory. This is how one costs DDR5 kit (Corsair Vengeance) with 32 GB currently 182 euros and a DDR4 kit currently only 103 euros.

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It can also be assumed that the mainboards will initially be significantly more expensive. The question is, of course, how mature the BIOS is in a new product. There were numerous problems with the Ryzen 5000 launch. Despite the higher Ryzen 7000 performance, the overall picture of CPU, RAM and mainboard must be considered when upgrading. So if you still have an older computer, you can probably get a bargain with the previous generation, especially since there is a lack of new games that require more CPU power anyway. By the way, Amazon is currently running Gaming Week. Here you can get RAM, SSD, etc., some of them much cheaper, and if you are thinking about assembling a new PC, you can possibly save some money here. You can find more information about the Ryzen 7000 presentation in this PCGH article.