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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Desktop Processor Review

Today we are reviewing two new processors from AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop Processors product line, offering up to 6 cores and 12 threads at 65w default TDP. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500 desktop processors. Designed using new "Zen 3" architecture using TSMC 7nm FinFET Processor Technology offering ideal solution for mid-level gaming and multitasking PC builds with Up to 4.4GHz Max. Boost Clock for Ryzen 5 5600 and Up to 4.2GHz Max. Boost Clock for Ryzen 5 5500, giving great performance at better efficiency.

Being from same product line both AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500 desktop processors comes with 6 cores and 12 threads, but offers different boost clocks, cache size and different PCI Express Version. Ryzen 5 5600 comes with PCIe 4.0 connectivity whereas Ryzen 5 5500 comes with PCIe 3.0 connectivity.

Now let’s see what more these AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop Processors offers.

Features

7nm "Zen 3" Architecture
"Zen 3" architecture is a ground-up redesign of the legendary "Zen" family. Equipped with end-to-end design enhancements, "Zen 3" embodies AMD’s relentless focus on single-core performance, energy efficiency, and reduced latencies

AMD Ryzen™ Technologies
With great processing power comes the bleeding-edge technologies to support. All Ryzen™ 5000 Series processors come with the full suite of Ryzen technologies designed to elevate your PC’s processing power including Precision Boost 2 and Precision Boost Overdrive

Specifications

Looks

Testing

For testing the performance of these AMD Ryzen 5 desktop processors, we ran few CPU benchmarks and game play using both AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500 desktop processors in same system.

Test System Configuration -

Benchmarks

For proper review we tested AMD Ryzen 5 5600 processor on fresh Windows 10 and Windows 11 OS

AMD Ryzen 5 5600	AMD Ryzen 5 5600	AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Overclocking

AMD’s Ryzen Master

AMD’s Ryzen Master utility is a powerful overclocking and monitoring tool for tuning your AMD Ryzen system within the Windows operating system environment.

List of New features for the AMD’s Ryzen Master utility

• Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO): Enable and disable the feature, with and without Automatic Overclocking.
• Package Power Tracking (“PPT”): The PPT% indicates the distance to configured maximum power (in watts) that can be delivered to the processor socket. “Limit” notes total motherboard-provided capacity if PBO is enabled.
• Thermal Design Current (“TDC”): The TDC% indicates the distance to the configured current limit (in amps) that can be delivered by the motherboard voltage regulators when thermally constrained. “Limit” notes total motherboard-provided capacity if PBO is enabled.
• Electrical Design Current (“EDC”):The EDC% indicates the distance to the configured current limit (in amps) that can be delivered by the motherboard voltage regulators in a peak/transient condition. “Limit” notes total motherboard-provided capacity if PBO is enabled.
• Fastest Core Detection: The grey stars represent the fastest core(s) within each CCX, while the gold star indicates the fastest core in the chiplet. The circles represent the second fastest cores within the CCXes. This can be extremely useful for breaking single-core clock speed records.
• Per-CCX Overclocking:It is now possible to independently control the clock speed of each CCX.
• Topology View: Cores in the UI are now labelled and grouped according to their physical location in the SoC.
• Active Power Management Insight: AMD Ryzen™ Processors make extensive use of cc6 sleep, rather than frequency adjustments, for active power management. Windows® is unable to probe and report the state of the core in a cc6 state, and instead reports the last active clock before sleep; this may give the illusion that a core is “stuck” at a high idle clock. With this update, users can now see for themselves when a core has entered cc6 sleep and can observe the complete range of idle/sleep frequencies available to the processor. This is the first and only tool in the market with this capability.
• DRAM Profiles: Users now have access to every memory timing parameter, including drive strengths, on-die termination, and Rtt values. Users can import and export full memory profiles to share with the community.

Using AMD’s Ryzen Master utility we were easily able to overclock AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU upto stable 4.50GHz all cores and maximum core clock of 4973.84 MHz.

Pros

• Great Performance
• Backward compatibility
• Nice Price
• New microarchitecture
• Faster Memory support

Cons

• Nil

Conclusion

If you are already having an old AMD Ryzen based system, than both AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500 desktop processors are great mid-range performance upgrade. Offering 6 cores 12 threads for remarkable multi thread performance and greater efficiency using "Zen 3" Core Architecture.

Finally at a price tag of approx. Rs.15759 for Ryzen 5 5600 and approx. Rs.14165 for Ryzen 5 5500 CPU, Both of these desktop processors offers the best price to performance value with overclocking head-room make them one of the best CPU choice for mid-level gaming pc builds and worthy of our PC TeK Reviews VALUE Award.

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