
- Cuts through games and programs like butter AM5 means no more annoying pins Stays comfortably under 80° with my Liquid Freezer 3

Excellent option for those who a moving away from Intel due to recent problems


-Price -Stable -Decent clocks for a plain Ryzen 5 5500

Product was easy to install. Made an absolute difference in my machines performance.

-Shreds any and all workloads -runs cooler than my old 5800x3D -boosts to 5.7GHz on all cores under heavy workloads

It has functioned flawlessly on a MSI Tomahawk MB with DDR 6000 CL 30 memory. Upgrade options down the road... Gaming performance has been a significant improvement over my previous 5600x.

Fast! You want fps? Buy this Never exceeds 77C under full load for over an hour stress test. NZXT KRAKEN cooler.

Bought a new AMD CPU at a great price it arrived in perfect condition and on time. Everything works just as advertised.

Faster game play in intense gaming sessions than the [email protected]. Still running the 285K at stock settings.

Fast and stable! I've done a bunch of stupid stuff like running multiple games, chats, and a video all at the same time and the CPU was never the bottleneck. Had some stability issues at first but that turned out to be the mobo and not the CPU, don't buy gigabyte.

65w tdp, but tunable and overclockable. Running it with an AIO watercooler, runs 40-65 celsios typically. Came up immediately with a discrete graphic card. ( I was having trouble with other (similar, used, no graphics cpu , Perhaps it is a simpler initialization when the cpu has graphics? ) It is nice to have the "latest and greatest Zen 5 core., as of 2025 I dabble in performance coding / performance optimization, I wanted the full 512 bit avx512 support featured in Zen 5. This CPU is a price/performance sweet spot.

I had a 5900x and got it on a sale but always wanted the 16/32 core 5950x since it was the best CPU AMD released for AM4. But it was always priced with too much inflated pricing. I got this 5900XT Jan 2026, 16/32, core CPU because it was priced right and had the full 16 cores I wanted. I got it because I decided to not buy into AM5 at the moment because of DDR5 pricing is so high, but I wanted some sort of an upgrade right now and I already have 64GB ram and a 7900XTX card. I am glad I bought it because I am pretty sure I got a cherry of a CPU. I used Ryzen master to do the curve optimizer testing and after 2 hours of it running it set all cores to -30 negative. I was a bit skeptical of this choice but ran with it and it has been 100% solid and stable and boost to 4975-5000Mhz. I left every setting alone in the bios and the AMD software set the bios up according to the tests it did when I ran the software. The only thing I setup myself was the DDR4 which is set to 3733Mhz with decent timings not the best but pretty decent. In Aida64 my latency when tested is about 57-59ns which is pretty good I think for a dual CCD CPU. I am happy with my choice so far. It does seem to be faster than my older 5900x 12/24 CPU in games mainly because it seems to hold the core clocks a lot longer and temps do not seem to affect it as much as on the older 5900x did.

- Great performance - Low TDP - Backwards compatible with older cooling solutions - 12 cores - I am using an AM5 Asus board and was upgrading; I upgraded the BIOS to make sure I had the latest greatest, took out the old processor and put in the new one. Simple. - It's rock solid and just works. Plain and simple.

P Cores run between 5.4 and 5.7 when doing stuff. E Cores always seem to run at 4.6 when doing stuff. Have it paired with a 5090 and a 9100 PRO M.2 NvME for games and boy to things load fast! Haven't noticed any of the speed degradation like those noted when it was first released. I ponied up for good RAM, too. 4x16 gig CAS Latency 30 @ 6400, the processors native RAM speed. Suer you can over clock the RAM but always aim for your sticks being at least as fast as the processors native controller supports. Went from a 10920x to this after holding out as long as I could. I do wish that they'd make an "X" version at some point, you just can't beat the quad channel memory and the 44 PCI-E Lanes.

There are no issues with Monster Hunter World.

easy install. performance increase over 2600 is crazy probably 7 times faster at everything.

-Fastest gaming cpu aside from 14900KS as of writing this review (they're super close) -The p-cores overclock better than 13th gen.

Fast performance!

Fast - improved rendering time in Davinci, improved fps in games, improved office software speed.