Intel Comet Lake purported pricing details spilled, and they may cost about the same as 9th-gen desktop CPUs

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Intel’s 10th-gen Comet Lake desktop processors are set to be launched very soon, rumor has it, and we’ve caught a glimpse of some alleged retail prices for these next-gen CPUs courtesy of an online retailer.

As highlighted by @momomo_us, a regular hardware leaker on Twitter, purported prices on a few Comet Lake chips have been spilled by DirectDial, a Canadian retailer (and so they are in Canadian dollars, of course).So the price for the Core i9-10900 is $679 CAD, which works out to be around $487 in US currency (about £390, AU$770). For the Core i7-10700K you’re looking at $585 CAD or around $419 (about £335, AU$660), and also listed is the Core i7-10700 which is pitched at $506 CAD or around $363 (about £290, AU$575).

AMD matchup
We can also compare these prices to how much DirectDial charges for rival Ryzen 3000 chips. And in this case, let’s look at the Ryzen 9 3900X which DirectDial sells for $766 CAD or around $549 (about £440, AU$865) – you get 12-cores with that CPU compared to 10-cores with the Core i9-10900 at $679 CAD or $487 (about £390, AU$770).

That’s not a bad comparison for Intel, mind – note further that the 10900 has a considerably lower TDP, too – but the potential issue is that you can find the 3900X much cheaper than this at other retailers, generally for around the $450 mark in the US. But of course, we can’t make that kind of comparison yet, based on these Canadian prices – and indeed we don’t know exactly how these chips will stack up performance-wise, either.

Another comparison is the Core i7-10700 versus the Ryzen 3700X, a battle of the 8-core CPUs, with the latter priced at $492 CAD which is around $352 (about £280, AU$555), so slightly less than Intel’s offering by a few percent at DirectDial (at the time of writing). But again, as with the 3900X, the