Works better than the 3600 series

Yep, great CPU, just buy a decent cooler to go with it. The STD one runs hot!

Great CPU at a great Price

I have been quite impressed at how well this CPU performs whilst gaming, it has been paired with a 6600XT which feels like an ideal pairing at 1080P. The CPU happily keeps up with it delivering easily over 100FPS for the games that I play (CoD + Cod Warzone) and around 60FPS for Flight Simulator. would recommend for anyone who is after a CPU for gaming

Great Buy

For the price, you can't be wrong about the performance. 6 Cores with 12 threads for gaming along with general graphics design does not disappoint me. I would suggest this CPU to any budget builder.

zen 3 for 300

works with A320, best value

Value for money

I bought this over the Ryzen 5500 for the extra cache, which might be handy when rendering on multiple cores, and a little because of PCIE 4. Really I'm just pampering myself a little because I'm sure the 5500 would have worked about the same for my purposes. A vast improvement on my old FX-6300 based desktop, much improved in multi-core rendering performance, 10 times faster rendering in one application (SweetHome3D).

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Review

AMD's AM4 platform may be nearing the end of its life, but that's not stopping the company from releasing fine-tuned new processors for it. Launching this month is the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which is AMD's first CPU with 3D V-Cache technology and a likely harbinger of future chip designs. A number of slightly less glamorous chips are also hitting the street, such as the Ryzen 7 5700X that aims to offer more value than the older 5800X. The same idea goes for the new Ryzen 5 5600, whose $199.99 price undercuts the slightly beefier Ryzen 5 5600X by $100. But with market pressures pushing down the price of the 5600X, and the 5600 featuring a slightly lower clock speed, this new processor is more of an alternative choice than a clearly better one. But given the original is a great pick, this one is solid, too.Design: One Megabyte Short of an X Like all other AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors, the Ryzen 5 5600 features a core based on the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, built on TSMC's 7-nanometer ...

AMD's six-core Ryzen 5 5600 performs well enough for its price and is a solid midrange productivity and gaming CPU. Just mind the lack of integrated graphics and the street price of its own sterling sibling, the Ryzen 5 5600X.

Alluring $199 price point; Competitive with Intel 11th Generation Core i5 processors

Like all non-"G" series Ryzens, no integrated graphics