The king is dead, long live the king, as AMD continues to support its immensely popular nine-year-old platform with yet another processor. With two dozen processors in the Ryzen 5000 series alone, and potentially around a dozen or so each for the Ryzen 1000 – 4000 series, there are upwards of 72 or more CPUs that have been released for the AM4 platform. AMD’s X3D series debuted on the AM4 platform and has since become a popular choice among the gaming community, with AM5 offerings. A region-specific, limited-edition Ryzen 5 5500X3D release was discovered back in June, which was speculated to be an OEM-only product, and this latest processor could have a similar OEM-intended target.
AMD Ryzen 5 5600F
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The AMD Ryzen 5 5600F, like the aforementioned Ryzen 5 5500X3D, is a slower Vermeer-based silicon featuring 6-cores/12-threads. Both also have a 3 GHz clock rate with a boost up to 4.0 GHz and 384 KB L1/ 3 MB L2 cache. It’s speculated that the Ryzen 5 5600F will be an OEM-only product aimed at providing a low-cost, high-performance solution for office workstations. It’s also quite probable this will be the final release for the AM4 platform, but at this rate, it’s anyone’s guess if AMD has anything else lying around that it might surprise folks with. The greater challenge now, though, for OEMs, is how to competitively build an AM4 system with rising DDR4 prices and production for the older memory winding down.
AM5 still growing
Meanwhile, it’s been three years since the launch of the AM5 platform, and with the exception of a couple of hiccups, it has been doing well with the Ryzen 7000 and Ryzen 9000 releases. There have been rumors about an upcoming Zen 6 series, which could at long last see CCDs with more than 8 cores but that has yet to be confirmed, although it could be within the coming months. There have also been rumors that Zen 7 will launch for AM5, further extending its support into the future. Furthermore, as costs for Gen5 storage, along with DDR5, continue to drop, AM5 is becoming more of an attractive option for system builders as well, thus solidifying its foothold for the present and future, but it remains to be seen if it’ll have the longevity of AM4.