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AMD has released the Ryzen 5 5500F, a six-core, 12-thread Zen 3 chip with a 4.4 GHz boost clock priced around $100. Unlike the base Ryzen 5 5500, it is built on the Vermeer die rather than Cezanne, giving it PCIe 4.0 support and an 8% average gaming performance gain, alongside a 10% jump in multithreaded performance.
AMD has introduced two new six-core, twelve-thread desktop chips: the $99 Ryzen 5 5500F for aging AM4 motherboards and the $189 Ryzen 5 7500 for newer AM5 systems. The 7500 is a Zen 4 chip with integrated RDNA 2 graphics, essentially a graphics-enabled version of the existing 7500F, while the 5500F is a Zen 3 chiplet-based part built on the Vermeer design that adds PCIe 4.0 support missing from the standard Ryzen 5 5500.
AMD has released two new budget hexa-core processors: the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5 5500F priced at $99, and the Zen 4-based Ryzen 5 7500 priced at $189, both now available at U.S. retailers. The 5500F is essentially a lower-binned Ryzen 5 5600 without integrated graphics, offering a 500MHz lower boost clock and half the L3 cache, while still supporting PCIe 4.0.