AMD Ryzen 5 9500F and Ryzen 7 9700F budget CPU price leaked by retailer

AMD seems to be gearing up for new AM5 Granite Ridge CPUs to hit the market. The ‘F’ or iGPU-less variants of two Ryzen 9000 CPUs have been spotted online once again, this time on a retailer website with pricing. For now, AMD has not shared a release date for these CPUs but as they were expected in August, and its already September, the launch seems imminent.

Spotted by harukaze5719 and shared on X, the post shows two listings on ShopBLT and they are for the Ryzen 7 9700F and the Ryzen 5 9500F. The eight-core 12-thread 65W Ryzen 7 9700F is listed for $294 while the six-core 12-thread 65W Ryzen 5 9500F is listed for $218. This isn’t the first time these CPUs have popped up online. The Ryzen 7 9700F was seen on Asus’ CPU support website showing 3.8 GHz clock speed, 32 MB cache, and the same 65W TDP. The Ryzen 5 9500F, on the other hand, was spotted on Geekbench with the same clock speed and cache.

Since these two CPUs lack an iGPU, they should technically be cheaper alternatives to the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600 (AMD doesn’t have a Ryzen 5 9500X, yet). For reference, the Ryzen 7 9700X is currently listed on Amazon for $329, but the Ryzen 5 9600 doesn’t seem to be available in US yet so pricing is unconfirmed at this point. Speculation suggests that it would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 to $220. With that in mind, the $218 listed price for the 9500F seems a bit inaccurate.

The Ryzen 5 9600X, on the other hand, is currently selling for $190 which is $90 cheaper than its MSRP of $280.

In terms of performance, the upcoming CPUs can be expected to perform at par with their counterparts as they have pretty much the same configuration. As mentioned earlier, AMD has not shared a release date for these CPUs yet but we could get an announcement in the next couple of weeks.