The next generation of CPUs has landed. AMD opened the dances with Zen 4 aka 7 series. The cheapest (7600) costs about 300 $.
2 important notes.
The new cpus need new motherboards, meaning 450,550,750 are not anymore compatible.
The second thing is that all the new platforms for AMD 5 must work only with DDR 5 ram which are pretty expensive right now.
The cost of the whole platform is pretty high (cpu + mobo + ram) plus the fact that the new series are power demanding meaning (maybe) a need for PSU change. As for their performance, are top notch.
We wait Intel's response with 13 generation.