AMD Ryzen 5 Vermeer 5600X MPK (100-100000065MPK)

Brand New Zen 3 Core

At the end of 2020, AMD hit Intel's defenses with the release of a new generation of Ryzen Vermeer processors based on the all-new Zen 3 core. This time, the Reds set a really ambitious goal to not only beat Intel in raw processing power, but also in single-threaded performance. . To do this, the company had to completely shovel the old architecture and move to solid 8-core CCX blocks, which provide lower inter-core communication latency and speed up L3 cache access.

Impressive single-core performance

Until AMD announced the low-end Ryzen 3 Vermeer models, the rather powerful and expensive Ryzen 5 5600 is in fact the youngest member of the family. It features six multi-threaded Zen 3 cores, a dual-channel DDR4-3200 controller, and 32MB L3 cache. The processor cores operate at a fairly high nominal frequency of 3.7 GHz, and when the load increases, they can automatically overclock to 4.6 GHz, which is approximately equal to last year's bestseller Ryzen 5 3600 from the Matisse family. Compared to its predecessor, the novelty is both colder and on average 13-25% faster. And I don't care if it's resource-intensive cryptography, a stress test in Cyberpunk 2077, or a single-core Cinebench test. By the way, the guys from AMD really seriously improved the single-core performance, honor and praise to them.

For now it's better to wait

And everything would be fine if not for the price. First, by killing the dragon, AMD itself became a dragon. Therefore, no one in the camp of the "Reds" shied away from high price tags anymore. Secondly, retailers felt this moment, so at the start of sales, instead of the promised $299 for this processor, they asked for all $500. A month later, you can buy it for $400. By the standards of the mid-range Ryzen, this is still a serious amount, the same Ryzen 5 3600 will cost you $ 250, that is, the difference in performance is completely leveled by the price. Considering all this, it would be more appropriate to compare the new product with the Core i9-9900K, which also does not like overclocking (such things) and demonstrates similar results in non-gaming benchmarks, but at the same time gives out several FPS more in games and costs almost $100 more.