AMD Ryzen 5 5600F

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600F offers 6 cores and 12 threads. It drops into the AM4 socket with a 65W TDP — about 10.8W per core. Clocks span 3GHz base to 4GHz boost. 32MB of L3 cache helps in cache-sensitive games and workloads.

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