Black Friday CPU Deals 2026
9 processors are currently priced meaningfully below their own recent average, biggest drop first. We measure against what each one has actually cost over the last 45 days, not against a list price.
Black Friday 2026 is Friday, November 27, 2026.
Biggest price drops right now
How far each one has fallen below its own average over the last 45 days, measured on prices we recorded ourselves.
| # | Product | Value | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryzen 5 5600X · AMD22.1% below average45-day low 6 cores · AM4 · 65W | 30.6 pts per $100 | $176 |  |
| 2 | Ryzen 5 4500 · AMD9.1% below average 6 cores · AM4 · 65W | 42.0 pts per $100 | $79.79 |  |
| 3 | Ryzen 5 9600X · AMD8% below average45-day low 6 cores · AM5 · 65W | 42.0 pts per $100 | $173 | |
| 4 | Ryzen 5 5500 · AMD7.8% below average45-day low 6 cores · AM4 · 65W | 45.6 pts per $100 | $84.93 | |
| 5 | Ryzen 7 7700X · AMD6.3% below average45-day low 8 cores · AM5 · 105W | 30.1 pts per $100 | $235 | |
| 6 | Core Ultra 5 245KF · Intel5.6% below average 14 cores · LGA1851 · 125W | 37.7 pts per $100 | $178 | |
| 7 | Ryzen 9 9900X · AMD4.9% below average45-day low 12 cores · AM5 · 120W | 22.1 pts per $100 | $335 | |
| 8 | Ryzen 9 7900X · AMD3.8% below average 12 cores · AM5 · 170W | 22.4 pts per $100 | $309 | |
| 9 | Core i9-12900KF · Intel3.2% below average45-day low 16 cores · LGA1700 · 125W | 20.4 pts per $100 | $331 | |
$176
22.1% below average45-day low30.6 pts per $100$79.79
9.1% below average42.0 pts per $100$173
8% below average45-day low42.0 pts per $100$84.93
7.8% below average45-day low45.6 pts per $100$235
6.3% below average45-day low30.1 pts per $100$178
5.6% below average37.7 pts per $100$335
4.9% below average45-day low22.1 pts per $100$309
3.8% below average22.4 pts per $100$331
3.2% below average45-day low20.4 pts per $100
Best value at today's prices
Discount aside, these give you the most for your money right now. Ranked by gaming performance per dollar: the 1080p CPU gaming score divided by today's cheapest in-stock price.
| # | Product | Value | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 cores · AM4 · 65W | 55.8 pts per $100 | $54.65 | |
| 2 | 4 cores · LGA1700 · 58W | 47.6 pts per $100 | $105 | |
| 3 | Ryzen 5 5500 · AMD7.8% below average45-day low 6 cores · AM4 · 65W | 45.6 pts per $100 | $84.93 | |
| 4 | Ryzen 5 4500 · AMD9.1% below average 6 cores · AM4 · 65W | 42.0 pts per $100 | $79.79 | |
| 5 | Ryzen 5 9600X · AMD8% below average45-day low 6 cores · AM5 · 65W | 42.0 pts per $100 | $173 | |
$54.65
55.8 pts per $100$105
47.6 pts per $100$84.93
7.8% below average45-day low45.6 pts per $100$79.79
9.1% below average42.0 pts per $100$173
8% below average45-day low42.0 pts per $100
This is the top five. See every processor ranked with filters for the specs you care about.
How we pick these
Most Black Friday roundups show a percentage off a list price that nobody has charged in months. We do it the other way round. We record what the processors we track actually cost, every day, and compare today's price against that product's own average over the last 45 days. A part whose price has not moved scores zero, however big the sticker on it says the discount is.
Parts on dead platforms are excluded even when the arithmetic likes them. A cheap processor on a socket you cannot buy a new motherboard for will always look like good value per dollar, and it is never a good buy.
Ranked by gaming performance per dollar: the 1080p CPU gaming score divided by today's cheapest in-stock price. That matters more than the size of a discount, because a large discount on a poor-value part is still a poor-value part.
Two honest limits. The drop is measured only across the retailers whose price history we are able to keep, so a product sold only at one retailer can be a genuine bargain without appearing above. And a product needs three weeks of recorded history before we will put a number on it, so newly listed parts stay out of the list until we have enough to say something true about them.
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