The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is a desktop processor with 6 cores, launched in November 2020, at an MSRP of $299. It is part of the Ryzen 5 lineup, using the Zen 3 (Vermeer) architecture with Socket AM4. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 12 threads. Ryzen 5 5600X has 32 MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.7 GHz by default, but can boost up to 4.6 GHz, depending on the workload.
