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This Ryzen 5000 processor is yours for £145A six-core, twelve-thread processor for £65 below UK RRP.
A six-core, twelve-thread processor for £65 below UK RRP.
The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 is a surprisingly capable processor, with the single-core grunt of the rest of the Zen 3 family and only slightly lower clock speeds than the top-end six-core processor, the Ryzen 5600X. The Ryzen 5600X costs the best part of £200, but the vanilla 5600 is down to £145 at Ebuyer - a great value in my book.
Get the Ryzen 5 5600 for £145 (was £210)
RPS (and indeed Digital Foundry, from which I hail), haven’t reviewed the 5600, but looking at some online benchmarks (and the specs of the processor) things are laid bare. The 5600X has a 200MHz higher rated base and boost frequency, but AMD’s optimistic boost algorithms ensure that any differences are minimal at best. Otherwise, these are the same lumps of silicon!
So: the question is not 5600 or 5600X, but is it worth investing in Ryzen 5000 at all? I reckon it does make sense if you’re building a budget PC, as you get significantly better single-core performance than earlier Ryzen generations. You also get to use much cheaper AM4 motherboards and DDR4 RAM compared to Ryzen 7000 CPUs, which require expensive 700-series motherboardsandDDR5. You could makea case for the 5800X3Das offering superior performance, but that is at least double the price even when it’s discounted.
