We're about a month out from when Amazon's big Prime Day sale typically falls. With the launch of 's next wave of processors slated for an undisclosed date in July, I'm getting pretty excited about the CPU deals we could see this Summer. I've been looking forward to good CPU discounts since AMD made its 9000 Series announcement, so much so, that I even made a note to remind myself to start checking the prices of AMD's 8000G CPUs from the 17th of June onwards.
We'll start at the bottom and work our way up. The Ryzen 5 8500G has slipped from $179 , offering a supremely affordable computer brain for budget builders who don't want to be locked to a DDR4 system. Next, the Ryzen 5 8600G has been humbled, now sitting at a beautifully affordable .
Rounding things off is the powerful Ryzen 7 8700G, which is currently , down from $329. Now, I know, it's not hard to predict that when new products are coming out, the existing ones will start to go down in price, but when it comes to the at the moment, there are variants upon variants that are worth buying. AMD and Intel are essentially competing with themselves as people debate whether to upgrade to DDR5, and which of the current-gen CPU ranges to go for when they do.
You'd think discounting a whole generation of 8000G processors would be reserved for , but I had a hunch AMD would want to get out in front of the competition. Now, I must give credit where it's due. As much as I am an all-knowing, all-predicting CPU guru, my manager Tabith.
