AMD just lately introduced that sure Ryzen 5000 processors include free copies of Firm of Heroes 3, so in case you’re trying ahead to the slightly promising WW2 RTS, resulting from debut on February twenty third, this can be a sneaky approach of getting the sport (usually £50) and a ~£100 processor for lower than £100.
The Ryzen 5 5500 can also be a cracking CPU, providing strong single-core speeds, a six-core 12-thread design and modest energy consumption. And better of all, it is suitable with a variety of low cost AM4 motherboards and DDR4 RAM, making it a really cheap solution to construct a brand new system. The Ryzen 5 5500 comes with a inventory CPU cooler, the AMD Wraith Stealth, which is completely satisfactory for a 65W CPU like this one – it ought to preserve issues cool, even when it is a tad noisier than third-party alternate options with extra complicated designs.
Underneath the hood, the 5500 is admittedly a step down in comparison with the Ryzen 5600, a CPU that we have advisable on numerous events. That is as a result of it is based mostly on AMD’s cellular Zen 3 structure, codenamed Cezanne, slightly than the desktop-oriented Zen 3, codenamed Vermeer. Which means that, just like the 5600G, this chip comes with half the L3 cache of the 5600 (16MB vs 32MB) and no PCIe 4.0 assist. And in contrast to the 5600G, it does not embody built-in graphics.
Nonetheless, the 5500 nonetheless performs fairly moderately in fashionable video games, with evaluations from the likes of Techpowerup exhibiting an identical efficiency to the traditional Ryzen 5 3600, nonetheless strumming within the hearts of many gaming methods to this present day. Their figures confirmed round a 15% frame-rate benefit for the 5600 over the 5500, averaged throughout the 2 dozen or so video games they examined. Given that you just’re paying about 40% extra for the 5600, that makes the 5500 the clearly higher worth, even in case you issue within the lacking PCIe 4.0 assist. And actually, in case you’re gaming at 1440p or 4K, or in case you’re largely GPU-limited on the whole, then these margins grow to be considerably smaller!
So: in case you’re after Firm of Heroes 3 and fancy a model new CPU within the cut price, this can be a nice choice! You may also choose up a higher-tier CPU, just like the RPS-recommended 5600, 5700X or 5900X, in case you want one thing slightly quicker.
