AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500

The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 is a desktop processor with 6 cores, launched in April 2022, at an MSRP of $159. It is part of the Ryzen 5 lineup, using the Zen 3 (Cezanne) architecture with Socket AM4. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 12 threads. Ryzen 5 5500 has 16 MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.6 GHz by default, but can boost up to 4.2 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is making the Ryzen 5 5500 on a 7 nm production node using 10,700 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of TSMC. You may freely adjust the unlocked multiplier on Ryzen 5 5500, which simplifies overclocking greatly, as you can easily dial in any overclocking frequency.