AMD's AM4 platform may be nearing the end of its life, but that's not stopping the company from releasing fine-tuned new processors for it. Launching this month is the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which is AMD's first CPU with 3D V-Cache technology and a likely harbinger of future chip designs. A number of slightly less glamorous chips are also hitting the street, such as the Ryzen 7 5700X that aims to offer more value than the older 5800X. The same idea goes for the new Ryzen 5 5600, whose $199.99 price undercuts the slightly beefier Ryzen 5 5600X by $100. But with market pressures pushing down the price of the 5600X, and the 5600 featuring a slightly lower clock speed, this new processor is more of an alternative choice than a clearly better one. But given the original is a great pick, this one is solid, too.Design: One Megabyte Short of an X Like all other AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors, the Ryzen 5 5600 features a core based on the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, built on TSMC's 7-nanometer ...
AMD's six-core Ryzen 5 5600 performs well enough for its price and is a solid midrange productivity and gaming CPU. Just mind the lack of integrated graphics and the street price of its own sterling sibling, the Ryzen 5 5600X.
Alluring $199 price point; Competitive with Intel 11th Generation Core i5 processors
Like all non-"G" series Ryzens, no integrated graphics