Two new processors are becoming a member of the worldwide AMD Ryzen steady in Might 2024, with Amazon simply inadvertently revealing the AMD Ryzen 7 8700F launch date and value within the US. After being launched in China just a few weeks in the past, this CPU, together with the brand new AMD Ryzen 5 8400F, is now set to launch internationally, however there’s one puzzling facet about this CPU launch, and that’s the value.
The brand new CPUs are based mostly on the AMD Zen 4 CPU structure, and don’t characteristic an built-in Radeon GPU – the Ryzen 7 8700F is mainly a Ryzen 7 8700G, however with the GPU disabled. After we examined its sibling in our Ryzen 5 8600G evaluation, we discovered that the GPU was surprisingly highly effective, incomes it a spot on our greatest gaming CPU information. With out this GPU, you’d count on the CPU to have a really aggressive value, however that’s apparently not the case.
In accordance with Amazon, the Ryzen 7 8700F value is $299.99, and the discharge date is 14 Might, 2024. That’s an issue, as you’ll be able to at present purchase the Ryzen 7 7700X for simply $286.97 now from Amazon, and it’s a way more highly effective CPU. With a view to squeeze the GPU and AI {hardware} into the Ryzen 7 8700G, AMD needed to lower down the specs of the CPU, and people specs stay lower down, even when the GPU is disabled.
Which means the Ryzen 7 8700F solely has 16MB of L3 cache, for instance, in contrast with 32MB on the Ryzen 7 7700X. It additionally means the Ryzen 7 8700F enhance clock is barely 5GHz, in contrast with 5.4GHz on the 7700X – that is additionally 100MHz slower than the Ryzen 7 8700G’s 5.1GHz enhance clock.
Not solely that, however the Ryzen 7 8700F solely supplies you with 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes for GPU and SSD {hardware}, whereas the 7700X offers you 24 lanes that assist the most recent PCIe 5.0 normal. You received’t be capable of run among the best gaming SSDs, such because the PCIe 5.0 Essential T705, at full pace if you happen to use the Ryzen 7 8700F. On the plus facet, at the least the Ryzen 7 8700F nonetheless has AMD’s AI {hardware} enabled (which you received’t discover on the 7700X), however that’s of no use for gaming proper now.
Amazon hasn’t revealed the value of the six-core Ryzen 5 8400F but, however a publish by X (Twitter) leaker momomo_us suggests this new CPU will are available in at $189.99. Once more, that is costlier than the Ryzen 5 7600 at Amazon proper now, and it is a far more highly effective CPU, particularly in the case of gaming.
The Ryzen 5 8400F has an identical core CPU spec to the Ryzen 5 8600G, however with a a lot slower enhance clock of 4.7GHz, in comparison with 5GHz on the 8600G. Not like the Ryzen 7 8700F, it additionally doesn’t have the AI {hardware} enabled both. If you wish to purchase an inexpensive AMD six-core CPU, you’ll be significantly better off shopping for the Ryzen 5 7600, which has extra L3 cache and a a lot greater enhance clock of 5.1GHz.
Principally, if this pricing is true, and it appears to be like as if it’s, on condition that Amazon is now taking pre-orders, AMD has messed it up. There was a chance to offer individuals some additional alternative, with two new cut-price Ryzen CPUs with out built-in graphics, however at these costs, players could be significantly better off shopping for the cheaper Ryzen 5 7600 or Ryzen 7 7700X as a substitute.
In fact, if you happen to actually wish to maximize your gaming CPU efficiency, the best choice is to purchase a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which stormed our gaming benchmarks due to its enormous stack of additional L3 cache.
