Yes, there is no mistake, it does not look like a flash offer because we always warn that the first one who arrives takes it. Amazon and AMD have thrown the price of the Ryzen 5 5600X overboard to the point that it’s the biggest price drop for this processor in all it’s been on sale. Why is AMD now dropping its best-selling processor?
It’s a complex question on the one hand and a simple one on the other, so we’ll leave the former and focus on the latter: Intel sweeps AMD away with the Core 12 and in particular with the i5-12400.
AMD’s problem is that this CPU is now discounted and for a price of 210.15 dollarsso the competition is proving extremely tough as TSMC raised wafer prices for the second time this year.
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: the big wish
Performance, price and balance are what this already known processor offers and it is perhaps the perfect balance as an AMD series processor. What we have in hand is TSMC’s latest work of art for those L isa Su in the mid-range, a 7nm fabricated processor that’s been with us for a year and a half where its new stepping has boosted Boost its frequency until it’s close to the 4.6GHz
Logically we are talking about an x86-64 CPU belonging to the architecture Zen 3 code name Vermeer which integrates two dies to its credit: a CCD at 7nm and an I/O die manufactured by Global Foundries at 12nm. The first is the principal and integrates 6 cores with 12 threads at the named frequencies which together with the second give a TDP of only 65 watts be able to work from 0ºC to 95º C.
As a good Ryzen 5000 processor, it takes the PGA-1331 package for the socket AM4.
Large cache and new IMC
The main novelty that has greatly boosted the performance of these Ryzen 5000s is its larger L2 and L3 cache. Thus, we do not find 3 MB for the first and nothing less than 32 MB for the second, where the I/O matrix stores an IMC capable of supporting RAM memory. DDR4-3200
Of course we are talking about a CPU with PCIe 4.0 and 20 lanes under this version of the distributed bus in the following available configurations: 1×16+x4, 2×8+x4, 1×8+2×4+x4. Describes the processor we go with the price. And it is that we do not know how long this offer will last, but given the fall and being a processor in high demand, it may be until the end of stocks, since we can find it now for $249.77 after dropping an impressive 17%.
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