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Ryzen 5 1500X

The Ryzen 5 1500X offers a competitive price point and a good mix of characteristics, particularly if you're willing to invest some time in tuning. Gaming remains a soft spot in the Ryzen series, but a bit of tuning provides a good bang-for-the-buck option against comparable locked Intel Core i5's.

-- As reviewed by Tom's Hardware
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MSRP: $225.00
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Product details

  • Frequency: 3.7 ghz precision boost
  • 4 cores/8 threads unlocked; Thermal solution: wraith spire cooler
  • Cache: 2 mb / 16 mb (l2/l3); Maximum temperature: 95°celsius
  • Socket type: am4, pci express version : PCIE 3.0, default tdp / tdp 65w
  • Operating system supported operating system is windows 10 64 bit edition, rhel x86 64 bit and ubuntu x86 64 bit; Operating system support will vary by manufacturer

PROS

+ Unlocked ratio multiplier
+ Multi-threaded performance

CONS

- Unoptimized software ecosystem
- IPC throughput deficit

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Expert reviews and ratings

By Tom's Hardware on May 01, 2017
The Ryzen 5 1500X offers a competitive price point and a good mix of characteristics, particularly if you're willing to invest some time in tuning. Gaming remains a soft spot in the Ryzen series, but a bit of tuning provides a good bang-for-the-buck option against comparable locked Intel Core i5's.
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