It’s been years since the IT market situation was this exciting. The arrival of Qualcomm and its Snapdragon Elite changed the situation, and forced Intel and AMD to react; Although Qualcomm is currently only in Copilot+ PC laptops, it could soon make the jump to desktops and capture the share of the big two. We have already seen the launch of the new AMD processors, to which Intel responded with the first Intel Core Ultra 200; but now a new twist in the storyline is coming.
And that’s it AMD will “sabotage” the launch of new Intel processorswhich will take place on October 24, lowering the price of the Ryzen 9000 that it launched a few months ago, in addition to launching a new model, on November 7. In other words, if you wait a few weeks, you will have the perfect excuse not to buy an Intel processor and card.
Not that players will need many excuses. Intel itself admitted that the performance of the Intel Core Ultra 200 in games is not up to that of the last generation Ryzen, let alone the current one; and now AMD is going to finish the game with the launch of the Ryzen 9800X3D, the new model from the X3D brand designed to achieve maximum performance in games thanks to its 3D V-Cache technology for cache memory.
The Ryzen 9800X3D will make the jump to the new Zen 5 architecture and will have higher frequencies, making it faster than its predecessor, the Ryzen 7800X3D, which in turn was already faster than Intel’s most powerful models . Although AMD has not shared all the technical details, some stores have already confirmed that the base frequency will be 4.7 GHz, with 96 MB cache and a TDP of 120 W. Without seeing its performance in real games, it’s a safe bet to say that this will be the best processor for PC gaming.
Although Intel has abandoned (for now) the gaming sector, its consolation is that in the rest of the tasks things are more equal and even the blue team can boast of victories in multitasking and energy efficiency . But what if the Ryzen 9000s were cheaper? The choice would then be more difficult.
This is exactly what AMD is going to do, general price reduction throughout the range, between 30 and 50 dollars; At the moment, we do not know what its equivalent will be in Europe in dollars. This should make the Ryzen 9000 more competitive against the Intel Core Ultra, even if you’re not gaming, provided you accept higher power consumption.
In fairness, the arrival of the Intel Core Ultra 200 is not the only reason why AMD announced this price cut. The Ryzen 9000 launch was one of the worst ever, and it was clearly due to rush; many users encountered performance issues compared to the previous generation. As a result, this generation’s sales would have been the worst since AMD used the Ryzen brand for its processors.
In response, AMD worked with Microsoft to release a Windows 11 update that improves the performance of Ryzen processors, as well as a update for motherboards which reduces an inter-core latency issue discovered after release. This price drop is therefore akin to a “relaunch” of the Ryzen 9000, which, with the fixes, should be more competitive.
