Haha, pricing on CPUs, grouching about $850 chips that are gorillas. You guys forget this type of pricing?
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I'll even do the inflation adjusted math there. In 2006, you paid $1,000 for about an 8% (head math) uplift in frequency, no other benefits. This is a ~100% price premium over the next available SKU.
That's ~1,332 in todays dollars, or a difference of about $650 for a final cpu frequency bump.
Right now you pay way less for the leading Intel SKU and bumping from AMDs second best desktop chip (5900x to 5950x) costs you $250 and you get a smidge of frequency plus four full cores for your trouble.
Competition is good. That's what I am saying.
And saying a CPU is not a "desktop" CPU because it costs north of some arbitrary number is silly. Like saying a 3090 is a scientific part and not a gaming GPU "because it costs over $2,000". Different people obviously are going to be comfortable with different price limits. I couldn't imaging paying more than $400 for a CPU so I've had a 3930k and now a 5800x.