AMD Prepares for the Ryzen 5 9500F, a 6-core Desktop CPU

AMD is getting ready to release the Ryzen 5 9500F, a new low-end desktop processor variant in its Ryzen 9000 series. It’s unclear at this time whether the firm would limit this to OEM-SI or release it into the do-it-yourself retail channel. The chip was first discovered on the Geekbench online database. A benchmark run on the Geekbench 6.4.0 database produced 3122 single-threaded and 14369 multithreaded points, which is comparable to the Ryzen 5 7600 except that it is based on the more recent “Zen 5” microarchitecture and performs better on AVX-512 workloads.

Like the rest of the Ryzen 9000 series, the Ryzen 5 9500F is built on the same “Granite Ridge” MCM. With 32 MB of shared L3 cache and 1 MB of L2 cache per core, it is a 6-core/12-thread processor. In contrast to the Ryzen 5 9600X, which has a base frequency of 3.90 GHz and a maximum boost frequency of 5.40 GHz, the chip is clocked at 3.80 GHz with a maximum boost of 5.00 GHz. The 9500F’s lack of integrated graphics is indicated by the “F” brand extension. With a 28-lane PCI-Express Gen 5 root complex and a dual-channel DDR5 memory interface that supports up to DDR5-6400 in a 1:1 FClk:MClk ratio and up to DDR5-8000 in a 1:2 ratio, the I/O feature set is consistent with the rest of the series. The TDP of the 9500F is 65 W. If AMD chooses to release this chip in stores, we anticipate a competitive price range of $170 to $180.