Still, there are about 2 weeks for AMD Ryzen 3000 family of chips to arrive but it appears that Intel is feeling like this may affect Intel’s own processors’ sales. Therefore Intel is planning to reduce its 8th and 9th generation CPU’s prices by 10 to 15 percent.

DigiTimes, citing sources from the motherboard makers claims that Intel has notified its downstream PC and motherboard partners already about the CPUs prices drop.

If the given report by DigiTimes is accurate then we can see a price drops on these chips, i5-9600K, i7-9700K as well as the popular 8 core and 16 thread Core i9 9900K. So now we have to wait to witness how much changes affect the retail markets but these are more aimed at OEMs.

AMD has said that their Zen 2 cores based upcoming processors offer comparable performance against Intel’s equivalent processors when it comes to the gaming performance. Moreover, upcoming AMD processors have outperformed Intel in single as well as in multi-threaded benchmarks and AMD processors are more competitively priced.

Moreover, AMD chips consume less power as they come with PCIe 4.0 support. However, we have seen that Intel has stuck for many years on 14nm technology and just has announced its 10nm Ice Lake-U CPUs with 10nm desktop chips at Computex which won’t come before 2020.

AMD Ryzen 3000 family is set to launch on 7th of July and it might be a good time for people to upgrade their computers with Intel’s price drop.

DigiTimes