The Ryzen 5 7500 makes sense in this market because not everyone is a gamer, so integrated graphics mean you do not have to spend a fortune on a discrete graphics card at today's ridiculous prices. However, because it runs on AMD's AM5 platform, the Ryzen 5 7500 is still bound by the sky-high cost of DDR5 .
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usertests AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 processors with six Zen 4 and Zen 3 cores, respectively. That's not how "respectively" works, since it's reversed. Speaking of reversed, it was actually nuts for AMD to make the 5500F a Vermeer derivative and the 5500 a Cezanne without iGPU. The reverse would make much more sense. The "F" suffix on the Ryzen 5 5500F is present because Vermeer does come with integrated graphics, so AMD uses it to explicitly indicate the absence of this feature. Also wrong btw. Vermeer has no iGPU to begin with. Reply
thestryker AMD's naming of 5000 series parts has been pretty atrocious so this just carries in those footsteps I guess. 5500F: Vermeer with half cache 5500X3D: Vermeer with 3D V-cache 5500: Cezanne with no graphics 5500GT: Cezanne with graphics and higher boost clock speed (basically a 5600G with lower base clock) There's also a 5600F which has the full 32MB cache, but only boosts to 4GHz so for anything that doesn't benefit from additional cache it would actually be slower than the 5500F. I know this is largely due to scraping the binning barrel, but I hope they never do the mixing and matching architectures while carrying the same branding again. Reply
MikeMIke86 Just more junk releases. There’s really nothing worth upgrading to from a 5600 at a decent price. A US release of the 5500X3D would’ve been massive, but nope. Instead, here’s the 5800X3D for $300. Be thankful, peasants. 😂 Reply
usertests MikeMIke86 said: Just more junk releases. There’s really nothing worth upgrading to from a 5600 at a decent price. A US release of the 5500X3D would’ve been massive, but nope. Instead, here’s the 5800X3D for $300. Be thankful, peasants. 😂 I think it was $349. Only Micro Center is willing to sell it for $300, AFAIK. 5500X3D has 400-500 MHz lower clocks, so it's a bit of sidegrade from the 5600 in applications and some games. I think a 5700X3D re-release at $200 would have gone over well. But the fact is that the 5800X3D was at sky high prices on the used market, so people want it. Reply
thestryker MikeMIke86 said: A US release of the 5500X3D would’ve been massive, but nope. I bought one off AliExpress for ~$175 because I only had a single stick of DDR4-3600 and buying more DRAM for a faster non-X3D part didn't make any sense. It's not what I would call a good deal, but if what you do is gaming it's about as good a deal as it gets on AM4 now. Reply
King_V I dunno, man, I just think there's something kind of awesome about AM4 getting more CPUs that work on it. Ridiculous? Maybe, but I think in a positive way. Reply
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