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Review: Ryzen 5 5500 and 5600 can breathe new life into older AMD PCs

Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) 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. AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500 and 5600 CPUs (which go on sale today for $159 and $199, respectively) are both […]

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AMD claims new Ryzen 5000 mobile CPUs best Intel for gaming, content creation

Enlarge (credit: AMD) As expected, AMD took to the CES stage this week to announce new laptop CPUs. Most of the new Ryzen 5000 mobile family of chips share similarities with the desktop CPUs the company announced a few months ago, and they’ll start shipping with laptops from some of the bigger computer-makers in February. […]