And a ton of people are cross-shopping more expensive newer parts with still-available 5000 series CPUs which are much cheaper. There’s an interesting question about whether absolute performance is more important or if you should weight that against cost and/or power.

The GN benchmarks recently have done a good with explaining both the cost perspective and the performance-per-watt.

Edit: for reference, Newegg currently has the 5950x and 7950x at $500 and $600 respectively. And that’s before the higher platform cost for AM5/DDR5.