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AMD has finally revealed<\/a> the launch prices for its new range of Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs, and it\u2019s pricing them slightly lower than the Ryzen 7000 launch prices. The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X<\/a> with 16 cores will be priced at $649, which is $50 less than the $699 Ryzen 9 7950X that launched nearly two years ago. The rest of the lineup are priced between $20 and $50 less than equivalent Ryzen 7000 CPUs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After a delay to the launch<\/a> of its Ryzen 9000 CPUs \u201cout of an abundance of caution,\u201d the Ryzen 7 9700X ($359) and Ryzen 5 9600X ($279) will both launch on August 8th, followed by the Ryzen 9 9950X ($649) and Ryzen 9 9900X ($499) on August 15th. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n AMD is promising around a 16 percent instructions per cycle (IPC) uplift in performance over the previous-generation Ryzen CPUs, with big promises of performance gains in both productivity tasks and gaming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n AMD is also launching new X870 and X870E motherboard\u00a0<\/strong>chipsets for these new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs, but these motherboards won\u2019t be available at launch. Fortunately, these new Ryzen 9000 CPUs work in any existing AM5 motherboards, a socket that AMD has committed to support until at least 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n AMD\u2019s new CPUs arrive just as Intel, its main rival, struggles with crashing and stability issues<\/a> with its 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs. Intel has discovered the root cause of the problems and is planning to issue a microcode fix in the coming weeks, but existing CPUs that are already damaged from too-high voltages will need to be replaced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n