AMD Bulldozer FX pricing revealed @ ExtremeTech

Early this week AMD released some amazing overclocking numbers from a golden, and LHe cooled, FX-8150 which has many enthusiasts excited about the new platform.  Pricing for the new chip has also been released and seems to have many analysts confused.

Why is any of the above bad news? Well, the pricing is possibly too cheap. Early benchmarks of Bulldozer showed that Zambezi was never likely to be competitive with Intel’s Core i7 — and these prices, which are all well below any of Intel’s comparable i7 (and even some i5) Sandy Bridge chips, suggest that the FX Series chips are priced to sell rather than compete. The nearest-spec chip to the FX-8150, for example, is the Core i7-2600, which has an Intel-suggested retail price of $294 — some $60 more than the AMD chip. If you compare the FX against the “overclockable” 2600k, the price difference is even more pronounced.

$200 isn't bad for a new processor and I have yet to see an AMD processor ever cost more than the comparable Intel offering so I dunno what the big deal is.  Of course this is just speculation, once the reviews are up we'll know for sure.

Check CPU-World for a price list and the site below for more on this story.

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