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AMD has unveiled its mid-range Ryzen 5 microprocessors, six weeks after the launch of the high-end Ryzen 7, promising availability from 11 April at a cost of between $169 and $249.
The Ryzen 5 will offer a choice of both 6-core, 12-thread parts, alongside 4-core, 8-thread parts.
AMD will initially offer Ryzen 5 in four products: the flagship Ryzen 5 1600X ( which was previewed when the company launched the Ryzen 7 last month ), Ryzen 5 1600, Ryzen 5 1500X and the Ryzen 1400. As with Ryzen 7, all Ryzen 5 parts will be sold unlocked, as standard.
The 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 1600X will dent wallets to the tune of $249 (at a guess, that will be around £230), while the cheapest Ryzen 5, the 1400, will cost around $169 (or about £150).
While AMD was keen to stress the radically lower prices of its Ryzen 7 parts compared to Intel’s i7 range when it launched last month, with the Ryzen 5 AMD is keener to assert that it offers much more performance for the same money.
Pitted against a quad-core 3.8GHz Intel Core i5 7600K, for example, AMD claimed that its top-of-the-range Ryzen 5 1600X can outperform the similarly priced Intel part by « up to » 69 per cent running Maxon’s Cinebench performance benchmarking tool.
