The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 is around 11.8% faster in gaming and approximately 6% faster in productivity than the Ryzen 5 5500 but costs 45.5% more. Despite the performance gain, it is not worth the price.

AMD's Ryzen 5 5500 offers decent performance for non-gaming tasks, but it trails slightly costlier AMD and Intel CPUs in our benchmarks, making it a second-tier pick. Best Deal £60.

Ryzen 5 5500 only supports PCIe 3.0 speeds, since it's an APU with the integrated graphics turned off. Smaller L3 cache hurts Ryzen 5 5500 in some workloads. The ugly.

Next up are the two six core CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500 and 5600. The 5500 is rumoured to be a 6C/6T CPU which indicates that it will be cheap and go up against entry level 12th Gen CPUs such as the ...

The Ryzen 7 5700X will supposedly be a 65-watt part with 8 cores/16 thread, so it's most likely designed to compete with Intel's Core i5-12600K and Core i5-12600 processors.

The new Ryzen 5 4500, 5500 and 5600 all drop in just behind the Ryzen 5 5600X. The somewhat higher-end Ryzen 7 5700X finishes a few rungs higher though and lands smack dab in between the Core i5 ...

The Ryzen 5 5500 certainly works well, but realistically if you're on a budget yet remain a performance-minded enthusiast, this CPU should be avoided even at $140.

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AMD's Ryzen 5 5500 offers decent performance for non-gaming tasks, but it trails slightly costlier AMD and Intel CPUs in our benchmarks, making it a second-tier pick. Best Deal $115.89.