AMD
AMD Ryzen 5 5600
A 5600X with 200 MHz shaved off the boost clock and a much lower price, keeping the full 32 MB of L3 and PCIe 4.0. For a 1080p gaming build on a cheap AM4 board it is the sensible six-core, and it still ships with a cooler.
Pros
- Full 32 MB L3 and PCIe 4.0, unlike the cut-down Ryzen 5 5500
- Within roughly 3% of the 5600X in games for a third less money at launch
- 65 W TDP / 88 W PPT — quiet and easy on budget board VRMs
- Wraith Stealth cooler in the box
- Drops into 300-, 400- and 500-series AM4 boards after a BIOS update
Cons
- Six cores is the floor for modern multithreaded work like streaming or compiling
- 4.4 GHz peak boost leaves it behind the 5600X and 5700X in single-thread
- No integrated graphics, so it cannot boot or troubleshoot without a GPU
- Bundled Wraith Stealth is adequate but noisy under sustained all-core load
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 5 5600
General
- Announced
- 2022
- Socket
- AM4
- Process
- 7 nm
- Base TDP
- 65 W
- Max turbo power
- 88 W
- Unlocked multiplier
- Yes
- Cooler included
- Yes
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 6
- Performance cores
- 6
- Efficiency cores
- 0
- Threads
- 12
- Base clock
- 3.5 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4.4 GHz
- L2 cache
- 3 MB
- L3 cache
- 32 MB
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR4-3200
- Max memory
- 128 GB
- Memory channels
- 2
Platform
- PCIe version
- 4
- CPU PCIe lanes
- 24
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 1,950
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 8,800
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,490
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 10,900
- PassMark
- 21,500
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 5 5600 good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 earns an Inno Score of 48.3/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. A 5600X with 200 MHz shaved off the boost clock and a much lower price, keeping the full 32 MB of L3 and PCIe 4.0. For a 1080p gaming build on a cheap AM4 board it is the sensible six-core, and it still ships with a cooler.
What are the key specs of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600?
Cores: 6 · Threads: 12 · Boost clock: 4.4 GHz · Socket: AM4
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 5 5600?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i9-10900K, Intel Core i5-12400, Intel Core i5-12400F — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.