Initially stated to be exclusive to the PRC, AMD’s recently launched Ryzen 5 7500F for the AM5 socket now appears to be available worldwide. However, it appears like AMD only provided review devices to a few Asian media outlets, including Quasar Zone in Korea, who put the six core, 12 thread CPU to the test. Overall performance is quite similar to the Ryzen 5 7600, which isn’t all that surprising given that their base and boost clocks only differ by 100 MHz. The Ryzen 5 7500F performs two to three percent slower on average than the Ryzen 5 7600 in the majority of benchmarks.

With the customary odd exception, AMD trails the somewhat more expensive Intel Core i5-13400 in multithreaded applications but outperforms it in the majority of the benchmarked games. Even though the Ryzen 5 7500F is employing an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, it is typically 13 percent faster in game benchmarks at 1080p. Even in games, it typically outperforms the significantly faster Intel Core i5-13500 by about 9%. When it comes to power efficiency, the Ryzen 5 7500F machine falls short of the two Intel systems, requiring about 20 Watts more when gaming on average. . If you’re ready to give up the integrated GPU, AMD appears to have a budget-friendly CPU for the AM5 platform for a price of US$179.99. At this time, it is unclear when the CPU will be accessible outside of Asia.