Intel: Intel Comet Lake-S prices have leaked, and it's like AMD will win at price again

Come on, Intel

Historically speaking, the Intel vs AMD battle has typically played out like this: Intel was costlier while offering top-end performance, while AMD processors were far more affordable. But, that's changed recently, with AMD providing better performance and costs, while Intel is simply expensive – and it doesn't appear as if that's close to change.

Renowned leaker @momomo_us spotted EU pricing for a reasonably wide selection of 10th-generation Intel Comet Lake processors from the low-end Celeron G5900 to the mid-range Intel Core i5-10600. And well, they're pretty expensive.

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This pricing leak places the Intel Core i5-10500 at €252 (about $270, £210, AU$412), which is way costlier than even the Ryzen 5 3600X which is currently €225 (about $240, £190, AU$370) on German retailer CaseKing. Now it's extremely likely that Intel could pull out a single-core convert AMD's chips, but even with Hyperthreading, it probably won't win in multi-core workloads.

That's not even considering the elephant within the room that's AMD Ryzen 4000. We still haven't seen Intel announce a release date for its Comet Lake processors, and it's extremely possible that they will need to confront directly against AMD's Zen 3 processors. If that happens, AMD's refinement of its 7nm architecture could see IPC improvements that put Intel's chips to shame.

It's very possible, however, that these leaked prices are simply wrong – confine mind that Intel did absolutely slash prices on its 10th-generation Core X processors when it knew they would not compete with Threadripper 3rd Generation. Either way, we won’t know what the particular prices for Intel’s 10th-generation processors will appear as if, we just hope they’ll be affordable and Intel won’t price itself out of relevance.




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