This early Prime Day deal makes this AMD Ryzen 5 7600X a bargain from Amazon
Its best price in months.
If you're wanting to jump into the world of AM5 at an affordable cost, then the Ryzen 5 7600 is well worth a look, as you can get in on a modern PC build on the cheap with a potent six core/12 thread CPU that's a handy, affordable all-rounder for games, content creation and more besides.
From Amazon at the moment, this chip is £133, marking out its lowest price in quite some time. This chip originally debuted in September 2022 at a price of nearly £250, making this a serious deal.
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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (6 cores, 12 threads, up to 5.3GHz)Now £132.99 (was £156.98) |
The 7600X comes with six cores and 12 threads, as well as a boost clock of 5.3GHz, making it an especially snappy processor that's suitable for a wide range of intense workloads. This proved true in Will's review and testing, where the 7600X provided some high flying results in the likes of Flight Simulator 2020. At 1080p, the 7600X served up a result of 59fps with 5200MT/s RAM, while with a 6000MT/s kit it reached 65fps in the same test. Intriguingly, these results make for some of the best that we've seen in FS 2020 and some distance ahead of last-gen options, certainly proving that the 7600X is a worthy choice for gaming. With this in mind, it's the chip's single core performance that helps to push it ahead of both AMD's own chips and some of Intel's best from the past too, such as the 12700K, while also pushing close to the 12900K, too.
As well as being a solid choice for gaming for the price, the 7600X also proved its worth for content creation workloads, too. Its results in Cinebench R20 reveal the major generational upgrades that Ryzen 7000 brings, even at one of it mote affordable levels, with a 25 percent increase in single-core speeds compared to the 5600X, and perhaps more impressively, a marginal upgrade on Ryzen 5000's top performer, the Ryzen 9 5950X. The 7600X also outperforms the 5800X in video encoding workloads too, with a higher transcode framerate of 20fps.
Plus, with the advancements in lower cost DDR5 RAM and AM5 motherboards against its older AM4 equivalent, the hardy Ryzen 5 5600, it makes AM5 an increasingly sensible platform to build on. In that article, I noted the base difference in cost between a comparably specced AM4 and AM5 system to be around £180, which is a lot lower than it used to be, and with this reduction, that's likely to have gotten even cheaper.
Oh, and before I go, there's just one more thing with another componentdeal worth covering. You can also go for the latest generation of this processor in the 9600X, which provides around a 10-15 percent generational uplift in gaming and content creation workloads, is £156.
If you are someone in the market for a new CPU to act as the main piece of a new system, the Ryzen 5 7600X offers some amazing price to performance, and at just £133 from Amazon is fantastic.