AMD Launching Ryzen 5 5600 in January for $220?

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At the shock of absolutely no one, AMD is reportedly prepping another Zen 3 desktop processor called the Ryzen 5 5600, which will presumably trail the “X” model with a slightly slower boost clock and substantially lower TDP. You may be interested to know that the mid-range CPU could launch just a few months after the flagship SKUs, however.



According to an article excerpt spotted by harukaze, AMD will release the base version of the Ryzen 5 5600 in “early 2021” for $220. VideoCardz notes that the launch will happen at the same that AMD releases its Zen 3 AGESA/BIOS updates for X470/B450 motherboards, which...

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