AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

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The Ryzen 5 5600G is also far more suitable than the 5700G as a stop-gap for those holding out for GPU pricing to recover, and it's much more economical for use in home theater PCs. So as we see it, there's far more use cases where the 5600G makes sense and that makes it a more valuable product in our opinion.

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Last revision on April 25, 2024

Reviewers Liked

Very affordable
Strong gaming performance on integrated graphics
Passable 1080p, solid 720p
Excellent power consumption and efficiency
Compatible with Radeon Software suite
Single CCX design
7 nanometer production process
Bundled cooler

Reviewers Didn't Like

PCIe 3.0 connectivity
Limited motherboard compatibility at launch
Vega GPU architecture is dated

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By TechSpot on August 05, 2021

The new Ryzen 5 5600G may be a mid-tier processor, but it has some pretty big shoes to fill for AMD. The company says that it directly succeeds the Ryzen 5 3600, which in turn succeeded the Ryzen 5 2600 and Ryzen 5 1600. These have all been immensely popular chips for AMD around the $200-mark, and the company pushed some of the highest volumes among individual SKUs with these.

By TechPowerUp on October 05, 2021

The Ryzen 5 5600G steals the show with a stellar price-to-performance ratio that provides up to 96% of the iGPU gaming performance of its more expensive counterpart, but for 30% less cash.

By Tom's Hardware on September 27, 2021

Looking to play PC games without a graphics card? AMD's Ryzen 5 5600G CPU and its integrated graphics give cash-strapped gamers a superb, value-focused option that Intel can't match.

By PCMag on August 03, 2021

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AMD is officially taking the wraps off of its latest APUs, the Ryzen 7 5700G and the Ryzen 5 5600G. As their branding suggests, these new products are based on the same technology as Ryzen 5000 series processors, namely AMD's excellent Zen 3 core...

By HotHardware on August 03, 2021

Exactly two years ago, AMD last introduced a series of APUs for desktops, consisting of the Ryzen 3 3200G and Ryzen 5 3400G at the time. Lately, as a self-builder, you have been dependent on the regular Ryzens that always require a separate video card -...

By Absolute Gadget on August 01, 2021

AMD's refreshed CPU offerings are an interesting mix of great options and “a little too late”. The Ryzen 5700X for example is a great way to get 8 core Zen 3 performance without having to spend the 5800X prices. For performance, like with all of the...

By LanOC Reviews on May 06, 2022

For my initial benchmarking of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G over the past week, I ran 131 different CPU/system benchmarks so far on this Zen 3 APU. If taking the geometric mean of all the wide range of results, the Ryzen 5 5600G was about 6% faster than the...

By Phoronix on September 02, 2021

Earlier this year, AMD launched its Zen 3 based desktop processor solutions with integrated graphics. Marketed as the Ryzen 5000G family, these processors are the latest offering to combine AMD's high-performing Zen 3 cores with tried-and-tested Vega 8...

By AnandTech on August 11, 2021

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

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