You have to compare release pricing per gen not current pricing...

[easyrider]

The 3600x was $249 on release....the 5600x is $299 on release....it’s a $50 price bump across all SKU...

You can’t compare today’s pricing of 3600x against 5600x.....price drops occurs when the new gen hit the shelves...

You have to compare the release pricing for each Gen...

Also I see people comparing the 3600 pricing to the 5600x pricing...The 5600 does not exist so it’s not a valid comparison.

 

[easyrider]

They did this with the 3600 vs the 2600 too.



Yet, IMO the 5600 none X will at a later date for around $249. They just didn't release them together this time round.

The 5600X is not poor value anyway, 5600X at £280 vs the 10700K at £380, people pointing at core counts are straw clutching in exactly the same way the Bulldozer crowd did, you didn't buy the FX-8150 because it had 8 cores, you bought the 2500K because despite it only having 4 cores it was still a better CPU.

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People seem confused about how time works, and that things can be released at different times. It's really odd tbh.

I've not seen anyone compare the RTX 2060 to the RTX 3070 yet, just because the RTX 3060 hasn't been announced, they've not gone and started making a comparison that isn't valid.

Is the 5600X more expensive that the 3600/X/XT? Yes. Are you forced to buy one, because the 5600 hasn't announced/isn't out yet? No.

Oh, and what is even more humorous is people then comparing the prices post launch, "Oh but you could get a 3600 for £7.52, which makes it even worse" Forgetting to mention that the £7.52 figure was 6+ months after it was actually launched. Price go down, MSRP can be dropped, good luck increasing an MSRP after it has been announced.

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[easyrider]

I disagree. Exactly because the 5600 is not released yet and we don't know if it will ever be, there is nothing else to compare the 3600 with but with the 5600X, and more importantly, you can get the same performance from 3600, skipping 3600X altogether because it's more expensive.

Price increase is 50%, no matter how you look at it.

The 5600 doesn’t exist so your post is moot....you can only compare gen to gen....I’m struggling to understand what people don’t actually get.