November 2026 Processor Price Tracker: Ryzen 5 9600X Plunges to €149.90 While the 9800X3D Climbs to €416.90
With Black Friday less than two weeks away, desktop processor pricing across European and international retail channels has shifted sharply during the November 6 to November 13, 2026 tracking window. Across 20 flagship AMD Ryzen (Socket AM5) and Intel Core / Core Ultra 200S (LGA1700 and LGA1851) processors monitored this week, the overall trajectory favors PC builders, with 10 CPUs dropping in price, 6 holding steady, and 4 moving higher. While several Zen 5 and Arrow Lake chips have hit their lowest street prices of the autumn, AMD's flagship 8-core gaming chip, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, has climbed back above the €400 ($425) mark.
AMD Socket AM5 Pricing: Ryzen 5 9600X Falls to €149.90 ($159), While the 7800X3D Opens a €128 Gap Under the 9800X3D
For budget-conscious PC gamers building on the AM5 platform, the standout move of the week belongs to the Ryzen 5 9600X (Zen 5, 6 cores / 12 threads). After trading at €197.90 in late October and €169.90 on November 6, the chip shed another €20.00 ($21) over the past seven days to hit a record low of €149.90 (~$159). That drop creates an immediate pricing inversion inside AMD's own lineup: the newer Zen 5 processor now costs €13.00 less than the previous-generation Ryzen 5 7600X (Zen 4), which remains stuck at €162.90. A nearly identical convergence is playing out in the 8-core non-X3D bracket, where the Ryzen 7 9700X (steady at €242.90) now commands just a €5.00 premium over the older Ryzen 7 7700X (€237.90, down €1.00).
In the 3D V-Cache gaming tier, however, Zen 4 and Zen 5 are moving in opposite directions. Because AMD's wafer allocation continues to prioritize high-margin EPYC data center silicon over desktop Ryzen supply, pre-holiday demand has pushed the Ryzen 7 9800X3D up by €27.00 (+6.9%) in a single week, rising from €389.90 to €416.90 (~$439.99 US street price). Its 16-core sibling, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, also ticked up by €17.00 to reach €605.90 (up from €588.90 on November 6, though still well below its October 30 peak of €693.90).
By contrast, the previous-generation Ryzen 7 7800X3D dropped by €11.00 this week, falling from €299.90 to €288.90 (~$305). That leaves a hefty €128.00 (+44%) price gap between the 7800X3D and the 9800X3D. Meanwhile, the single largest nominal discount on the entire chart goes to the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D, which plunged by €144.00 (-16.4%) from €877.90 down to €733.90, yet paradoxically remains €128.00 more expensive than its faster Zen 5 successor, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D (€605.90), and €225.00 above the standard Ryzen 9 9950X (flat at €508.90).
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (8 Cores / 16 Threads - Socket AM5)
- Zen 5 architecture (8 cores / 16 threads) with up to 5.2 GHz max boost clock
- 104 MB total cache (L2 + L3) with inverted 2nd-Gen AMD 3D V-Cache underneath the CCD
- Fully unlocked multiplier for overclocking, 120W TDP, and DDR5 / PCIe 5.0 support on Socket AM5
Intel Core Ultra 200S and 14th Gen: Core Ultra 7 270K+ Plunges by €56 to Undercut the 265K
Over in the Blue camp, six out of eight tracked processors moved lower between November 6 and November 13, led by an aggressive price cut on Socket LGA1851. The headline mover is Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K+, which tumbled by €56.00 (-16.7%) in seven days, dropping from €335.90 to €279.90 (~$295). That sudden correction creates a striking anomaly in Intel's Arrow Lake stack: the higher-binned 270K+ now sells for €21.00 less than the standard Core Ultra 7 265K, which edged down by just €4.00 from €304.90 to €300.90.
In the midrange LGA1851 bracket, the Core Ultra 5 245K shed €4.00 to dip below the €200 threshold at €199.90 (~$210), while the Core Ultra 5 250K+ also slipped by €4.00 from €239.90 to €235.90. At the top of the Arrow Lake lineup, the 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K remained unchanged at €559.90.
On the legacy Socket LGA1700 platform (14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh), the Core i7-14700K dropped by €8.00 to reach a multi-month low of €365.90 (down from €373.90 last week and €382.90 in early October), while the Core i9-14900K ticked down by €1.00 to €481.90. The lone Intel processor moving upward this week is the Core i5-14600K, which climbed by €11.00 from €249.90 to €260.90, making it €61.00 pricier than the newer Core Ultra 5 245K (€199.90) and €111.00 more expensive than AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X (€149.90).
Full AMD and Intel Desktop CPU Price Breakdown (November 6 vs. November 13, 2026)
When budgeting a full platform upgrade this month, remember that CPU discounts only tell half the story, as sky-high 32GB DDR5 memory pricing continues to drive up the total cost of AM5 motherboard bundles. Below is the complete 20-processor price comparison recorded between November 6 and November 13, 2026, alongside baseline figures from September 11, 2026:
| Processor | Socket / Arch | Sep 11, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 | 7-Day Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 9600X | AM5 (Zen 5) | €175.90 | €169.90 | €149.90 (~$159) | -€20.00 (-11.8%) |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X | AM5 (Zen 4) | €169.90 | €162.90 | €162.90 | €0.00 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7700X | AM5 (Zen 4) | €208.90 | €238.90 | €237.90 | -€1.00 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9700X | AM5 (Zen 5) | €239.90 | €242.90 | €242.90 | €0.00 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | AM5 (Zen 4 X3D) | €319.90 | €299.90 | €288.90 (~$305) | -€11.00 (-3.7%) |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | AM5 (Zen 5 X3D) | €434.90 | €389.90 | €416.90 (~$440) | +€27.00 (+6.9%) |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X | AM5 (Zen 4) | €283.90 | €309.90 | €316.90 | +€7.00 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X | AM5 (Zen 5) | €339.90 | €339.90 | €339.90 | €0.00 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X | AM5 (Zen 5) | €506.90 | €508.90 | €508.90 | €0.00 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | AM5 (Zen 5 X3D) | €587.90 | €588.90 | €605.90 | +€17.00 (+2.9%) |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | AM5 (Zen 4 X3D) | €843.90 | €877.90 | €733.90 (~$775) | -€144.00 (-16.4%) |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X | AM5 (Zen 4) | €579.90 | €809.90 | €809.90 | €0.00 |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | LGA1851 (Arrow Lake) | €192.90 | €203.90 | €199.90 (~$210) | -€4.00 |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 250K+ | LGA1851 (Arrow Lake) | €232.90 | €239.90 | €235.90 | -€4.00 |
| Intel Core i5-14600K | LGA1700 (14th Gen) | €264.90 | €249.90 | €260.90 | +€11.00 |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 270K+ | LGA1851 (Arrow Lake) | €335.90 | €335.90 | €279.90 (~$295) | -€56.00 (-16.7%) |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | LGA1851 (Arrow Lake) | €310.90 | €304.90 | €300.90 | -€4.00 |
| Intel Core i7-14700K | LGA1700 (14th Gen) | €373.90 | €373.90 | €365.90 | -€8.00 |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | LGA1700 (14th Gen) | €481.90 | €482.90 | €481.90 | -€1.00 |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | LGA1851 (Arrow Lake) | €530.90 | €559.90 | €559.90 | €0.00 |
My Take on the Spec Sheet
When you evaluate this price sheet strictly by frames per dollar and 1% low stability rather than marketing slides, three buying rules stand out on my test bench. First, do not fall for the pre-Black Friday markup on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D at €416.90: with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D dropping to €288.90, you are looking at a €128 ($135) premium for an average gain of 8% to 11% at 1080p and less than 4% at 1440p or 4K. Given how expensive a 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 kit still is in November 2026, pocketing that €128 covers a huge chunk of your RAM or steps you up a tier on your GPU.
Second, the undisputed value king of the week is the Ryzen 5 9600X at €149.90. Paying €13 less for a cooler-running Zen 5 chip with stronger single-thread IPC than the older Ryzen 5 7600X (€162.90) makes it an easy recommendation for any mid-range gaming rig under $1,200, as I was just pointing out to Grimtag and Kaelen. Finally, if you are building a hybrid rig for gaming, rendering, and video editing, Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K+ at €279.90 (-€56) makes the €300.90 Core Ultra 7 265K completely obsolete. As for the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, even after a €144 price cut to €733.90, skip it without hesitation: the Zen 5 Ryzen 9 9950X3D is faster across the board and costs €128 less at €605.90.
PC hardware enthusiast and competitive gamer, Arthur 'Heimdall' splits his time between France and the UK working in enterprise B2B software solutions. A business school graduate passionate about component benchmarking, he has been building, modding, and tuning PCs since childhood, optimizing every thermal degree and millisecond of display latency. An avid gamer across Assassin's Creed and sandbox titles, he forged his alliance with Grimtag and Chaya during late-night World of Warcraft raids before joining Pro-Gamer.
