# New budget PC: i9 12900 or Ryzen 9 5950x?

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**Created:** [October 1, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/new-budget-pc-i9-12900-or-ryzen-9-5950x/154340 "2022-10-01T15:30:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/new-budget-pc-i9-12900-or-ryzen-9-5950x/154340/7 "2022-10-03T13:23:50Z")

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> [@Juraj](#):
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> > [@lupaz](#):
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> > Ryzen 7950x is out now, just FYI.
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> He did say budget though :- ). 7950X + DDR5 + Any board = Quiet a lot of money.

How much can the difference be, no? A few hundreds? And you’d be on AM5 which gives you several years for an upgrade…  
I think it’s worth it.  
I’m thinking on building a 7950X myself but briefly checked on prices for DDR5/motherboards.

EDIT: I’m reading further comments here. Thanks. [https://forum.corona-renderer.com/](https://forum.corona-renderer.com/) [Do we have some informations about the 7950x performance ?](https://forums.chaos.com/t/154345) ;topicseen

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