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Deal | AMD Ryzen 9 5900X now near all-time low on Amazon

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X retail box (Source: AMD)
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X retail box (Source: AMD)
Still stuck at the $569.99 list price, the venerable AMD Ryzen 9 5900X goes for $264.99 thanks to a 52% discount and an $8 coupon. However, any potential buyer should be aware that the average price, according to Camelcamelcamel, is just $287.19. Even more, this high-end processor will celebrate its fourth anniversary in November.

Last summer, the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X fell for the first time below the $300 threshold on Amazon. Back then, it reached an all-time low price of $296. Now, this high-end desktop processor with 12 cores and 24 threads has the same $569.99 list price but can be acquired from Amazon for $272.99. Even better, an $8 coupon can be applied to the order to drive this aging processor to $264.99, which is only 2 cents more than the all-time low figure recorded by Camelcamelcamel.

According to the Amazon price tracking service mentioned above, the lowest price ever of $264.97 was recorded on April 6, 2024. The all-time high of $649.99 is dated September 30, 2021. While the list price mentioned earlier, which is also $20 higher than the launch price of this processor, hasn't been used as a selling price for years now, it should be mentioned that the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X had a brief period in January 2024 when it sold for $540. Last but not least, the average price of $287.19 should also be taken into account when judging this deal.

Based on the above, the ongoing 52% discount is, in fact, less than 10% below the average price, even when factoring in the $8 coupon. However, this amount of money would bring a processor that uses more affordable DDR3 memory and for which you could find discounted motherboards as well. Also, the fact that Amazon has managed to sell over 2,000 pieces last month shows that, while it will be half a decade old in 2025, this processor can still hold its own against many modern counterparts, especially when taking the price of the entire platform into account.

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Codrut Nistor, 2024-04-15 (Update: 2024-08-15)