AMD
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
The cheapest way onto the AM5 platform: a six-core Zen 4 chip with the integrated GPU fused off, aimed at budget gaming builds that always have a discrete card installed. It gives up roughly nothing in games to the 7600 while costing less.
Pros
- Lowest entry price on AM5, so the board and DDR5 can be upgraded to Zen 5 later without a new CPU socket
- 5.0 GHz boost puts it within a few percent of the Ryzen 5 7600 in games
- 65 W TDP / 88 W PPT — the bundled Wraith Stealth is genuinely adequate
- Full 28 CPU PCIe 5.0 lanes: x16 graphics plus a Gen 5 NVMe slot, same as the pricier Ryzen 7000 parts
- Unlocked for PBO and Curve Optimizer, which is where most of the free performance on Zen 4 lives
Cons
- No integrated graphics at all — no display output for troubleshooting, no fallback if the GPU dies, no iGPU video encode
- Launched China-first before reaching wider retail, and it is stocked less widely than the 7600 — availability and street price still vary by region
- Six cores and 32 MB of L3 hold it back in heavily threaded work and in cache-sensitive simulation games
- An AM5 board plus DDR5 still costs more than an equivalent AM4 build using a 5600 or 5700X3D
Average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
General
- Announced
- 2023
- Socket
- AM5
- Process
- 5 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
- 3.7 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5 GHz
- L2 cache
- 6 MB
- L3 cache
- 32 MB
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR5-5200
- Max memory
- 128 GB
- Memory channels
- 2
Platform
- PCIe version
- 5
- CPU PCIe lanes
- 28
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,570
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 12,300
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,850
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 14,300
- PassMark
- 27,500
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F earns an Inno Score of 58.9/100 (“Average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The cheapest way onto the AM5 platform: a six-core Zen 4 chip with the integrated GPU fused off, aimed at budget gaming builds that always have a discrete card installed. It gives up roughly nothing in games to the 7600 while costing less.
What are the key specs of the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F?
Cores: 6 · Threads: 12 · Boost clock: 5 GHz · Socket: AM5
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, AMD Ryzen 5 7600, AMD Ryzen 9 3950X — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.