AMD's current top-end processor, the Ryzen 9 7950X, offers great performance but it is also expensive, with a launch price of $699 in the US, or £739.99 here in the UK. If you've been holding out for a sale before picking one of these up, then now is a great time to shop around, as AMD has quietly slashed the price down by over 20%. Other Ryzen 7000 series processors are also currently on sale. 

Currently, you can grab the Ryzen 9 7950X for £599.99 from OCUK, Scan and Amazon here in the UK. Over in the US, sites like Newegg also have the chip at a discount, bringing the price down to $574.

If you need a refresher, you can see all the key specs for each new Ryzen processor in the table below:

	GRAPHICS MODEL	CORES	THREADS	MAX BOOST CLOCK	BASE CLOCK	TOTAL CACHE	PCIE VERSION	GRAPHICS CORE COUNT	DEFAULT TDP
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X	AMD Radeon Graphics	16	32	Up to 5.7GHz	4.5GHz	80MB	Gen 5	2	170W
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X	AMD Radeon Graphics	12	24	Up to 5.6GHz	4.7GHz	76MB	Gen 5	2	170W
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X	AMD Radeon Graphics	8	16	Up to 5.4GHz	4.5GHz	40MB	Gen 5	2	105W
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X	AMD Radeon Graphics	6	12	Up to 5.3GHz	4.7Ghz	38MB	Gen 5	2	105W

AMD's other Ryzen 7000 processors are also seeing decent price cuts this week. The Ryzen 9 7900X is down to £479.99, the Ryzen 7 7700X is down to £359.99 and the Ryzen 5 7600X is down to £259.99. That extra money will go a long way towards picking up a decent AM5 motherboard, or upgrading to DDR5 memory.

We've reached out to AMD and this is a limited-time sale, so eventually, prices will go back up again.

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KitGuru Says: Are you planning on picking up some PC upgrades during the sales over the next few weeks? Are you going to be picking up a Ryzen 7000 CPU? 

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