ET Deals: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x for $199 During Amazon Prime Day
With the launch of , AMD’s last-gen flagship CPU has started its slow exit from the market. The Ryzen 7 2700X still offers excellent performance, however, and you can get one of these high-end processors for an almost unbelievable during Amazon’s Prime Day sales event.
The Ryzen 7 2700X features eight CPU cores that can handle two threads each, which enables the processor to run a total of sixteen threads simultaneously. Each CPU core is also able to run at a max clock speed of 4.3GHz and the processor as a whole has whopping 20MB of cache.
Though it is no longer the top SKU from AMD, it’s nonetheless one of most powerful processors available and it can competently compete with Intel’s Core i7 products. Marked down from its original retail price of $329 to , the Ryzen 7 2700X also costs less than half of what the new Ryzen 7 3700X is listed for.
You can also get the even faster that comes loaded with 16 cores marked down from $899.00 to $499.99, which makes it also an excellent deal. If you want to buy one of these processors at the current price you will need to act today, however, as the deal expires at 11:59 PM EST.