Price Chart Last Updated on: 05/29/98 12:00 AM

Price/Performance has always been a major attraction of Alternative CPUs. What better way to showcase this strength than with a chart that illustrates the current and historical price trends of AMD, Cyrix, and Intel processors.

The following price chart was given to me by Mitch Todd.  Mitch has been using a spreadsheet to track CPU prices since October 1997.   The price points for each item in the chart below are determined by averaging the ten best prices found at pricewatch.com, regardless of vendor.  This tends to exaggerate trends, but that's obviously not a bad thing since trends are what I'm trying to illustrate.

Please remember the purpose of the AlternativeCPU.com Price Chart is to document price trends, not the absolute lowest microprocessor prices on the Internet.

Day one on the chart is 10/16/97.

Source: Mitch Todd