AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Price Accidentally Leaked on Amazon

We haven’t seen any concrete pricing details for AMD’s Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 processors yet, although they’re launching in less than two weeks, and if the latest pricing leak is any indicator, the company may have yet to reveal pricing for a very good reason – the Ryzen 9600X, which was listed on Amazon Canada yesterday and has since been removed, is extremely expensive.

Twitter user @momomo_us spotted the page on Amazon with an official listing for the six-core Ryzen 5 9600X processor — the most affordable processor in AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series of processors that’s set to launch on July 31. The original listing clearly shows a price of $475 CAD, as spotted by PCN Games who got a screenshot of the page before it was deleted.

That’s $200 more than the current retail price of the Ryzen 5 7600X on the same site, and looking back at the launch of the Ryzen 7000 series and pricing since then, the older processor has never cost that much, spending most of its life around $320 in Canada. Meanwhile, in the US, it launched for $299, but like most places, it recently saw a massive price drop and was available for just $180 during the Amazon Prime sale.

Even a generous conversion from Canadian to US dollars puts the Ryzen 5 9600X at well over $300 – not much more than the Ryzen 5 7600X. However, as mentioned earlier, this processor has seen a massive price drop, going from $299 at launch to just $180 during the Prime sale and much of its time spent recently at just $200. That’s a huge drop in percentage terms and it was for very good reason – it simply wasn’t competitive with Intel’s Core i5-13600K and was certainly the weakest processor in the Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 lineup that launched two years ago.

Unless the Ryzen 5 9600X is better positioned to compete with current AMD and Intel processors, it could well suffer the same fate. Even worse for the new Zen 5 processor, if it reaches over $300, it will face a sworn enemy: AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which costs only $385 right now on Amazon. It remains to be seen how the new Ryzen 9000 processors fare against current-gen 3D V-cache models in games, but it’s likely that the latter will offer similar or better performance overall. Still, AMD is essentially competing with itself at this point, with Intel still a long way from launching its next-gen Arrow Lake-S desktop processors.

For the rest of the lineup, we have very little idea about pricing, other than to say we expect it to be similar to the Ryzen 7000 series, and here at least, more cores and higher frequencies have made for more competitive performance for the price. I’ll be reviewing the new Ryzen 9000 processors when they launch, so be sure to follow me here on Forbes using the blue button below or on Facebook Or Youtube.