AMD doesn’t give up. There will be new processors for old PCs
AMD is once again lending a helping hand to its fans. Two affordable Ryzen 5000 series processors for older motherboards will hit the market.
Nest AMD AM4 was presented in 2016 and gained enormous popularity a year later, thanks to its processors AMD Ryzen 1000. And although platforms equipped with them often lagged behind the competition, they had one huge advantage – long support and no need to replace the motherboard every two generations.
AMD is preparing Ryzen 5 5600XT and 5600T processors
Great proof of this is the fact that socket AMD AM5 it only appeared at the end of 2022 with the chips AMD Ryzen 7000. Now the Ryzen 9000 series uses it. However, it seems that The Reds have not said the last word yet. Two new CPUs are coming for old motherboards.
Numerous foreign sources indicate that AMD is preparing Ryzen 5 5600XT and Ryzen 5 5600T processors. They are already visible on the website of one of the producers – the company ASUSas well as in the program results databases Geekbench. Which may suggest that they have already been shipped to selected OEM computers.
Both processors will use AMD Zen 3 architecture and 7nm lithography from TSMC. We will get 6 cores and 12 threads, TDP 65 W and no iGPU. In the case of AMD Ryzen 5 5600XT, the base clock should be 3.8GHzwhile in Ryzen 5 5600T it will be 3.5GHz. Unfortunately, the boost clocks remain a mystery.
In the Geekbench test, the AMD Ryzen 5 5600XT paired with the GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Pro motherboard and DDR4-2666 RAM recorded 2,132 points for single-threaded performance and 9,182 points for multi-threaded performance. This performance is at the level of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600 that has been available for a long time. So we can only hope that the new CPUs will be extremely cheap or simply designed for ready-made PCs.
