New packaging and a bigger price tag: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and the Ryzen 9 7900X to cost more than US$799 and US$549 respectively

Courtesy of VideoCardz, we may have gotten our first look at the retail packaging for the upcoming Ryzen 9 7000 CPUs. Reportedly taken from an internal presentation, the packaging looks quite different than the one for the Ryzen 9 5000 parts. That’s about it when it comes to the box of the Zen 4 flagships.

VideoCardz also received some pricing information regarding the different Ryzen 7000 SKUs. The new information differs from our previous report that had the Zen 4 parts starting from US$229 and going all the way up to US$799. The Ryzen 9 7900 and the Ryzen 9 7950X will cost more than their Zen 3 counterparts, the Ryzen 9 5900X and the Ryzen 9 5950X. In other words, the Zen 4 flagship SKUs will cost more than US$549 for the Ryzen 9 7900X and US$799 for the Ryzen 9 7950X.

The Ryzen 7 7800X, a CPU we know little about, is also expected to cost more than its predecessor the Ryzen 7 5800X at >US$449. On the other hand, the Ryzen 7 7700X is rumored to be as expensive as the outgoing Ryzen 7 5700X at US$299. Sadly, we don’t have any information regarding the entry-level Ryzen 5 SKUs.

AMD is reportedly planning to launch the Ryzen 7000 CPUs on September 15, so we won’t have to wait too long to find out how much the chips officially cost.

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