Amd Ryzen 5 arrives on April 11, the best mid-range in many years
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The initial release of AMD Ryzen processors has been limited to all three top-of-the-range models, the Ryzen 7s that include the 1700, 1700X, and 1800X models. All of them with an impressive configuration of eight physical cores, a maximum TDP of 95W and a very groundbreaking price that places them below the barrier of 600 euros. These processors have been a tremendous success with an excellent level of performance and very similar to that of the more expensive Intel processors. After initial success, AMD is already preparing to wage more war with the arrival of Ryzen 5 in less than a month.
AMD Ryzen 5, the best processors for gamers
AMD Ryzen 5 will be the mid-range of new processors based on the revolutionary Zen microarchitecture, specifically, on April 11 four new processors will arrive on the Summit Ridge platform, with the AM4 socket. We will have a total of two 6-core and 12-thread processors and two 4-core and 8-thread processors. These AMD Ryzen 5 promise to be the best processors for gamers with tight prices and excellent performance in all resolutions, from Full HD to the most demanding 4K.
The mid-range is the most important since it monopolizes the bulk of sales, Ryzen 5 is the next step of the Sunnyvale company to bring all the benefits of Zen microarchitecture to the bulk of users, we will have some very powerful new processors, with low power consumption and high quality thermal design for excellent chip cooling with a fairly simple heatsink.
AMD Ryzen 5 has been designed with the aim of offering a platform with a very high performance in all AAA video games, their great multi-thread processing capacity also makes them ideal for the demands of e-Sports, these new processors are not They will wrinkle when playing and streaming at the same time.
The top of the range of the Ryzen 5 family will be the 1600X model, which offers 69% higher performance than the Core i5-7600K in the Cinebench R15 multi-core test, thus reaffirming itself as a very capable processor in multitasking.
We leave you a table with all the new processors.
| Processor | Clock frequency | L3 cache | Cores / threads | Turbo frequency | XFR | TDP | Price |
| Ryzen 5 1600X | 3.60 | 16 MB | 6/12 | 4.00 | N / A | 95 W | $ 249 |
| Ryzen 5 1600 | 3.20 | 16 MB | 6/12 | 3.60 | N / A | 65 W | $ 219 |
| Ryzen 5 1500X | 3.50 | 8 MB | 4/8 | 3.70 | N / A | 65 W | $ 189 |
| Ryzen 5 1400 | 3.20 | 8 MB | 4/8 | 3.40 | N / A | 65 W | $ 169 |
Source: press release
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