Processors for the AM5 platform at under $100? This is what AMD seems to be planning for the very near future.
After almost seven years of loyal service, the AM4 platform is gradually giving way to the AM5 at AMD. In fact, the AM5 has been a reality since the release of the Ryzen 7000 series processors in September 2022. While the performance of these Ryzen 7000 series processors has been widely acclaimed by testers around the world, AMD has had difficulty in imposing its new platform due to the additional costs generated by so many technical innovations at once: motherboards were more expensive to manufacture, and DDR5 memory - much more expensive than DDR4 - had to be used to take advantage of this new solution.
Ben Hardwidge
For two years, AMD continued to offer two distinct platforms: the AM5 and its Ryzen 7000 series for the most enthusiastic of users, and the AM4 with the new Ryzen 5000 series launched only recently - the 5800XT and 5900XT in particular - for users less on the ball with their budgets. This duality may well be living out its final days, as rumors are becoming more and more insistent that AM5 processors will soon be available at "low prices", i.e. even cheaper than the Ryzen 5 7500XT, which can now be found for around 150 euros with a little searching.
According to the rumor relayed by Bits and Chips, these "low-end" processors are not actually "new" chips, but models from the Ryzen 7000 production lines, downgraded for the occasion. It's worth noting that Ryzen 9 7950 processors that don't pass all the quality tests are found in the lower ranges. Here, the idea is to go a step further, and if a chip can't be sold as a Ryzen 7600 or 7500, it may still be possible to make it an "Athlon AM5" or a "Ryzen 3 7xxx", since, again according to Bits and Chips, AMD could use either of these names for these entry-level processors, which would be found under the $100 mark... it remains to be seen when.
