This article is not an upgrade guide, rather as you'd probably expect from us, it's a benchmark session, where we'll be taking an old Ryzen 5 1600 system using the MSI B350 Tomahawk and upgrade it ...

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 FinFET process. The Ryzen 5 5600 contains a total ...

AMD has just dropped yet another Socket AM4 CPU, breathing yet more life into the aging platform. The new AMD Ryzen 5 5600F has just been launched nine years after AMD first introduced Socket AM4 in ...

Nearly a year and a half after the launch of the first Ryzen 5000 processors, the Zen 3 CPU architecture is finally coming to cheaper chips. Let’s see how the Ryzen 5500 and 5600 chips perform and ...

Recently we compared the 5-year-old Ryzen 5 1600 to the new Ryzen 5 5600 on an old B350 motherboard to see just how much of an upgrade the Zen 3 processor is – and spoiler – it's a massive upgrade ...

If you’re buying or building an ultra-budget PC, then two of the best CPU options around $100 are the AMD Ryzen 5 5600, and the Intel Core i3-14100F. These chips come from two different manufacturers ...

To judge the Ryzen 5600's performance in 2025, I've tested this system in a suite of rasterised and ray-traced games, including shooters, racing games, RPGs and more. Testing was performed at three ...

The Ryzen 5 5600 itself, or indeed its -X suffixed brother, is the best selling CPU on Amazon UK at the time of writing (with the 5600X second best in the USA), and both models have gained well in ...