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It’s official now, confirmed by several retailers stocking the new Ryzen 9000 CPUs or preparing for preorders and AMD themselves: the official launch date for Zen5-based desktop CPUs is July 31st, the last day of this month, fulfilling their promise.
The launch includes four SKUs: the 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X, 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X, 8-core Ryzen 7 9700X, and 6-core Ryzen 5 9600X. AMD has not yet disclosed pricing information, which is expected to be unveiled next week. This carefully planned approach may be to prevent Intel from gaining an advantage in pricing their Core Ultra 200K series, or to gather feedback from reviewers who are already testing the new series.
There are four CPUs in the new Ryzen 9000 series, which includes the beastly 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X flagship. Pricing still hasn’t been disclosed, but it’s currently expected to align with the Zen 4 series chips.
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