REVIEWS AMD Ryzen 5500
Too little, too late is what Alan Dexter hears a lot...
SPECS
Socket: AM4
Process: TSMC 7nm FinFET
Cores: Six
Threads: 12
Cache: 384KB L1, 3MB L2, 16MB L3
Clock: 3.6GHz (4.2GHz boost)
Mem: DDR4 3,200MHz, two-channel, no ECC, 128GB max
PCIe: v3.0 20 lanes
TDP: 65W
GPU: n/a
Cooler: Wraith Stealth
A
MD released the Ryzen 5 5500, its cheapest CPU of this generation, nearly a year and a half after the first Zen 3 chips graced our PCs. Seeing as we’ve got Zen 4 chips due before the end of 2022, can this processor make an impact in such a tight time frame, and what’s been dropped to hit that budget price tag?