AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X hits new price lows in the US and UK

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AMD's Ryzen v 5600X hits new price lows in the US and UK

$280 in the United states and £240 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland - a expert deal for an efficient, powerful 6-core processor.

AMD's Ryzen 5000 desktop processors remain some of the best around when it comes to gaming and non-gaming performance, and prices are finally starting to come down after months of availability bug and price gouging. Today marked 2 new low prices for the Ryzen 5 5600X, the cheapest Ryzen 5000 processor, in both the US and Uk.

In the Uk, the 5600X dropped to £240 when you lot purchase it from Currys with the code FNDDGAMING, while in America you can pick up the 5600X for $280 from Antonline on Ebay.

Get the Ryzen 5 5600X at Currys for £240 with code FNDDGAMING
Become the Ryzen 5600X on Ebay for $280

These are great prices for a high operation six core, twelve thread processor - especially one that comes with a competent Wraith libation in the box. Pair it with a B450, B550 or X570 motherboard, and you've got a recipe for a performant gaming, streaming or content creation PC.

Today's discounts amongst the best nosotros've ever seen for this processor, and make it a lot better value against something like Intel'southward 11400F or 10600K. AMD'due south ecosystem is generally cheaper to enter, cheers to the power for even depression-end boards to come up with features similar retention overclocking, as well as the 5600X's completely adequate bundled cooler; Intel CPUs really need a third-party air or water cooler to shine. To be fair, Intel's latest 500-series chipsets finally adopts a like posture by providing memory overclocking to B and H-series boards, so an Intel system could become an equally good value once entry-level B560 and H570 boards start seeing heavy discounts. For at present though, AMD remains on peak in this regard.

In Katharine's Ryzen 5600X review, she said that AMD had "set a new benchmark for mid-range gaming CPUs". She lauded the new chip's gaming performance, power efficiency and bundled cooler, merely did note that it was more expensive than the 3600X, the chip it nominally replaced in AMD's lineup, too equally the 10600K. The 3600X, 10600K and fifty-fifty 11600K remain cheaper than AMD's alternative, just the 5600X does expect significantly improve value at its current position some way beneath its RRP.

What do you call up of the Ryzen 5 5600X? Are these prices inexpensive enough - or are you lot because instead a higher-tier processor? Let us know in the comments beneath.