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AMD’s new budget offering of desktop CPUs have turned up on PassMark. The Ryzen 5 5500 and its slightly faster Ryzen 5 5600 relative have been flexing their Zen 3 muscles on the benchmark and churned ...

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Nearly a year and a half after the launch of the first Ryzen 5000 processors, the Zen 3 CPU architecture is finally coming to cheaper chips. Let’s see how the Ryzen 5500 and 5600 chips perform and ...