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The Ryzen 5 5500 is a 6-core, 12-thread AM4 desktop processor built on Zen 3 at 7nm, boosting to 4.2 GHz with 16MB of L3 cache and a 65W TDP. It is a budget chip for people upgrading an existing AM4 board or building a low-cost gaming and multitasking PC. Its limits are real: PCIe 3.0 only and no PCIe 4.0 support, and unlike the Ryzen 5 5600 it has half the L3 cache, so it trails that chip in some games. This tray version ships without a cooler, so budget for an aftermarket one.
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Lowest price we've seen: $92.99 on Nov 12 at Amazon. Tracked across 1 store since Nov 12.
Owners and reviewers treat the Ryzen 5 5500 as a solid budget 6-core that handles gaming and everyday work well, while noting it is cut down compared with the Ryzen 5 5600. The missing cooler and PCIe 3.0 come up often.
The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 is a 6-core, 12-thread desktop processor for the AM4 socket. It is built on AMD's Zen 3 architecture (7nm TSMC). It runs at a 3.6 GHz base clock and boosts up to 4.2 GHz, with 16MB of L3 cache.
Its 65W TDP keeps power use and heat output low, so a modest aftermarket cooler can handle it. It has no integrated graphics, so it needs a discrete GPU. It works with DDR4 memory up to 3200MHz and PCIe 3.0.
This is the Tray (OEM) version. It comes without retail packaging and without a bundled cooler, so an aftermarket CPU cooler is required.
