The recently launched AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X ... MSRPs are technically slightly cheaper than the Ryzen 5 7600X ...

If you've been after a capable Ryzen 9000 CPU for a fair bit less, this Amazon USA deal on the Ryzen 7 9700X isn't to be ...

with a 58.5 percent lead for the newer chip. Having more cores, and faster cores, really has a big impact, so we'd suggest something like the Ryzen 7600 or 7700X if workloads like video ...