Are CPU's expensive at launch?

[Internet Swag]

Or do they just kinda stay the same price all the time? 

[TheSLSAMG]

They generally stay around the same price for a while, but normally budge after a while.

[Enderman]

Nop. They are the same price from start to finish. (excluding sales and stuff)

[EpicGeekonFire]

The most it will go down in price will be like 50 bucks anyway, they are pretty decent at keeping original value.

[Guest]

They stay around the same price till the next gen and then awhile after.

[Goldilock]

dude I have been waiting for Sandy Bridge and in my place the price don't even budge. Maybe except my A10 5800K which has dropped some 50USD in my country.

[i_build_nanosuits]

now that intel will launch CPU's without any competition what so ever (AMD is gone completely now and will be even further when skylake will hit the market) it's anyone's guess at how much intel will inflate the prices on the newer CPU's but my own estimation is that it will cost somewhat A LOT more than what we are used to pay...

[Deletive]

now that intel will launch CPU's without any competition what so ever (AMD is gone completely now and will be even further when skylake will hit the market) it's anyone's guess at how much intel will inflate the prices on the newer CPU's but my own estimation is that it will cost somewhat A LOT more than what we are used to pay...

 AMD is a lost cause in mobile, desktop I have hope in them in 2016... I haven't seen a single kaveri laptop so I'm just assuming it's not worth looking, like carrizo is going to have 8 gcn cores still while Broadwell will have 40% improvement haswell and is released for mobile before carrizo. than skylake will be like 50% in top of that??? so carrizo is doomed in desktops too by then.

With amd: the older it is the cheaper it gets, while with intel I think it just costs more the older it gets.

[i_build_nanosuits]

 AMD is a lost cause in mobile, desktop I have hope in them in 2016... I haven't seen a single kaveri laptop so I'm just assuming it's not worth looking, like carrizo is going to have 8 gcn cores still while Broadwell will have 40% improvement haswell and is released for mobile before carrizo. than skylake will be like 50% in top of that??? so carrizo is doomed in desktops too by then.

With amd: the older it is the cheaper it gets, while with intel I think it just costs more the older it gets.

broadwell is only a die shrink, its not a new architecture its still haswell architecture so it will perform very similar...only consumes less...

about skylake i dont know if you've been living under a rock for the past 8 years but the improvement from sandy to ivy and then for ivy to haswell has always been less than 10%..i dont see how skylake would be 50% faster...those numbers are out of this world buddy

[harrynowl]

broadwell is only a die shrink, its not a new architecture its still haswell architecture so it will perform very similar...only consumes less...

about skylake i dont know if you've been living under a rock for the past 8 years but the improvement from sandy to ivy and then for ivy to haswell has always been less than 10%..i dont see how skylake would be 50% faster...those numbers are out of this world buddy

Although our last die shrink (Ivy Bridge) was also a 10% bump, but I reckon it was just to smear it in AMDs face (either that or to make it competitive with Sandybridge overclocking to stop people buying the old ones instead..?).

 

And again the days of 40-50% perf each processor generation are loooooong gone.

 

That guy had a very hopeful analogy

 

Some old Intel platforms really hold their value, quad core LGA775 CPUs and lower end motherboards still go for £40+ each. I don't see too many AMD platforms floating around though.