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AMD’s new Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 are available for sale, though the prices are higher than AMD originally suggested. On Amazon, the Ryzen 5 5500F is available for $120, while the Ryzen 5 7500 is listed at $210, both $20 more expensive than AMD’s suggested retail pricing. Both are sold directly by Amazon, suggesting we’ll see slightly higher prices for these two chips than AMD originally suggested.<\/p>\n
AMD revealed the budget CPUs nearly two weeks ago, and despite launching on that date, the chips haven’t been available for sale in the U.S. until now. The Ryzen 5 5500F is particularly interesting, as the $90 Ryzen 5 5500 has continually been among Amazon’s best sellers in CPUs. Although the Ryzen 5 5500 and 5500F sound similar, there are actually quite a few differences between the two CPUs.<\/p>\n
Both are six-core, 12-thread chips using AMD’s Zen 3 architecture, but the 5500 falls under the Cezanne family, while the 5500F falls under Vermeer. The 5500F comes with PCIe 4, compared to PCIe 3 on the 5500, as well as a higher 4.4 GHz boost clock \u2014 the base 5500 tops out at 4.2 GHz. These changes apparently allow the 5500F to achieve higher performance, somewhere in the range of 5% to 10%, in games. We’ll be getting the CPU in the Tom’s Hardware <\/em>lab to test the performance ourselves.<\/p>\n Latest Videos From<\/span>Tom’s Hardware<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Although Zen 3 is aging, it has become an ideal home for budget builders as the RAM pricing crisis continues to surge. In addition to the Ryzen 5 5500F, we saw AMD re-release the Ryzen 7 5800X3D earlier this year to combat rising DDR5 prices.<\/p>\n \n