The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X is based on AMD’s Zen 5 microarchitecture. According to AMD, this design has several improvements to boost performance by an average amount of 16%. It also transitions the CPU ...

AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs have arrived, marking the debut of the more powerful and efficient Zen 5 architecture and a quartet of Dragon Ball Z meme-adjacent processor numbers: 9600X, 9700X, 9900X and ...

AMD is back with a new budget CPU that’s aiming to make it among the best gaming processors. The Ryzen 5 9600X debuts the Zen 5 architecture, and it comes with some performance improvements over ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Consumer confidence in Intel's processor lineup is at an all-time low due to the well-publicized issues with the long-term reliability of the ...

As we mentioned in our review of the Ryzen 5 5600, manufacturing PC silicon is an imperfect process. Companies like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia typically create relatively few actual, discrete chip designs ...

Nearly a year and a half after the launch of the first Ryzen 5000 processors, the Zen 3 CPU architecture is finally coming to cheaper chips. Let’s see how the Ryzen 5500 and 5600 chips perform and ...

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X arrives at a time when CPUs have been too hot and too power-hungry for a couple of years. Chips from both Intel and AMD have faced severe overheating problems, but this CPU is ...

The raw compute performance is impressive for such an affordable chip, but too much has been cut from the overall package to make it a tempting option for gamers. PC Gamer's got your back Our ...

In April, AMD launched one of the most peculiar desktop processors the company's offered to upgraders and PC builders in recent years—and we don't mean the 3D V-Cache-based Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The Ryzen ...

Ryzen 5 2600X is the mainstream darling of AMD CPUs. Two fewer cores and a lower price make it an excellent alternative to the Ryzen 7. PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many ...