European CPU Price Index — Which Country Pays the Most?

How the index is calculated

• For every cpu with at least one in-stock listing in two or more EU countries, we take the cheapest in-stock price per country (converted to EUR using daily ECB rates for SEK/PLN).
• The continental price floor for that cpu is the cheapest country-level price across all tracked monetised stores.
• Each country's premium = (country price − floor) ÷ floor, expressed as a percentage. The country that owns the floor scores 0 %.
• The country's headline number is the median premium across all cpus comparable in that country — resistant to outliers from a single high-margin SKU.
• "Wins" counts the cpus where this country has the cheapest EU listing. "Most expensive" counts the opposite. "Stores" counts the retailers in that country with at least one comparable listing this run.
• Server / HEDT CPUs (Xeon, Threadripper, EPYC) are excluded — their pricing is set by workflow value, not consumer demand, and would skew the ranking.
• A country enters the ranking only with ≥ 15 comparable cpus and ≥ 2 monetised stores. Thin-sample countries are listed above under "Single-store countries".
• Top cross-border gaps require both sides scraped within 48 hours, from different EU countries, same product id. No Amazon prices anywhere in this index (Amazon Associates programme rules).
• 31 of 31 tracked consumer cpus were comparable across 2+ countries on this run. Window: 91 days. Updated every 6 hours to match the scraper cadence.