The manufacturer has announced that the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F desktop processor will be available worldwide on July 24 and will cost $179 in the US. earlier this month There were rumours That the processor was released exclusively in China, but this turned out to be incorrect.

In addition to the release date and suggested retail price, AMD also has the official specifications for the processor announce. The processor is based on the Zen 4 architecture and has six CPU cores, 12 threads, 6MB of L2 cache and 32MB of L3 cache. It has a CPU speed of 3.7GHz and a clock speed of 5.0GHz. Also, the Ryzen 5 7500F has 65 watts of tpd and comes bundled with a Wraith Stealth cooler.

With a US MSRP of $179, it’s the cheapest desktop processor in the Ryzen 5 7000 series to date. The lower price is partly because the processor doesn’t have an integrated GPU. This is while all other Ryzen 5 7000 CPUs have an RNDA 2 igpu with 2 compute units.

Based on game standards From Korean publication QuasarZone, which has already tested the CPU, it appears that the processor vastly outperforms its Intel counterparts, such as the Core i5-13500 and 13400. The CPU also performs similarly to that of the Ryzen 5 7600, though the latter scores slightly higher at FPS. The new CPU performs about 5 percent worse than the 7600X. The average CPU temperature and power consumption are lower with the 7500F compared to the above processors.