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Yeah, I was thinking of upgrading from my 3600 but the prices are pretty crazy. $180 for the 3600 vs $300 for the 5600X, for the same core count and a slight IPC improvement? You can get a 3700X with 2 more cores for that money!

New generations of hardware are supposed to improve the price/perf ratio!

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That's comparing street prices for a CPU at the end of its sales cycle, with the MSRP for a next-gen CPU. Yes AMD raised prices, but the difference is $50 if you compare like for like (the MSRP for the 3600X when it launched was $250).

If you want to buy a processor right now, street price matters, not release price

If you want to determine whether prices are “pretty crazy” or not then context matters.

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