Good evening, friends. I’m again going to focus on a more budget-focused product, I’d like to review the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU. It has an AM4 socket, so it’s a bit older than your AM5s or STR5’s, but give it a chance; It’s way better than it seems.
First off, lets go over some basic info. Its clock speed is 3.6GHZ, it has 6 x 32KB of cache for both the instruction L1 and data L1 caches, 6 x 512KB for L2, and 16MB of L3. Now, the main pull factor for this thing is that It is DIRT cheap. I snagged mine from a tray pack on Newegg for $87.49, which for a pretty decent CPU, is astonishingly cheap. Granted, it didn’t come with a fan due to it being from a tray, but with a fairly cheap fan or even a Cooler Master, it runs just fine. According to Passmark’s CPU benchmarks, it has one of the best value for its price on the market. This thing has a single thread score of 3061, and a multi-thread score of 19295, which, for $90, is a steal.
The main issues I see is that 1: The L3 Cache isn’t that good, at only 16 MB, 2: it can only use PCIe 3.0, and 3: Similar Intel processors may be more viable (according to the review from Tom’s Hardware, as I myself am not too knowledgeable about Intel’s processors), which are some valid things to be concerned with, and probably why it’s so cheap. However, for budget builds, this thing is superb and i would definitely recommend it for anyone looking for good performance with a great price.
(Note: This review was part of a class project.)
