Intel 11th Gen “Rocket Lake” Pricing Already Going Down on

Prices of retail 11th Gen Intel Core “Rocket Lake” desktop processors are starting to calm down near the “1,000-unit tray” costs on Amazon (US). The 1K-unit tray costs have historically served as a de facto baseline for retail costs, and as of immediately (April 16), we see a number of SKUs fashionable with avid gamers and PC fanatics method ranges near the baseline. This would not strictly be a price-cut, since they’re nonetheless larger than the baseline, however could be a trimming of the retailer mark-ups historically connected to new processor launches.

As of this writing, the retail Core i7-11700Ok is listed on Amazon (US) for USD $404, virtually equivalent to the $399 1K-unit tray value. The i7-11700 (non-Ok) might be had for $339.99, very near the $323.99 tray value. The Core i5-11600Ok goes for $264.99, which is nearly equivalent to the $262 tray value. Lesser “locked” SKUs such because the i5-11500 are inside $10-15 of their tray pricing. It’s solely the top-dog Core i9-11900Ok and i9-11900KF that stay closely marked up by sellers on Amazon. At these costs, the 11th Gen Core processors are anticipated to use strain on sellers of AMD Ryzen 5000 sequence processors to evaluation the costs of SKUs such because the Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 5 5600X; and on AMD to launch cheaper Ryzen 5000 sequence SKUs within the retail channel.