We once told people to avoid the Ryzen 5 5500. Years later, it's a top-selling CPU. With DDR5 prices spiraling, has this budget Zen 3 chip ...

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a new Zen 3 processor, shows strong synthetic performance with Geekbench scores of 1936 (single-core) and 9292 (multi-core), outperforming the Ryzen 5 5500 by up to 13%.

AMD has recently introduced the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a mid-range processor based on the Zen 3 architecture with 3D V-Cache technology. It was launched in June but, for now, is only available in Latin ...

You might want to install the 24H2 update if you have a Ryzen CPU. You might want to install the 24H2 update if you have a Ryzen CPU. is a senior editor and author of ...

AMD's recent branch prediction optimizations, which significantly improved gaming performance on Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" and Ryzen 7000 CPUs, are now available for Windows 11 23H2 users. This update offers ...

In this best-of rundown, we're going to outline the top 10 best gaming processors available in 2025. The CPUs featured here should offer some of the best gaming performance per-dollar in their ...

The AMD Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 series was a hotly anticipated release earlier this year, especially given the problems Intel has been having with its Raptor Lake CPUs. However, gamers quickly noticed the ...

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