In July, AMD introduced the six-core Ryzen 5 7500F, which comes along as a cheaper alternative to the Ryzen 5 7600 without an integrated graphics processor and is still on par in benchmarks despite a 100 MHz lower clock rate. Initially only announced for China, a global retail release was later announced and the new CPU with the F suffix, which has been unusual for AMD until now, has also arrived in German retail.
In the PCGH price comparison, the Ryzen 5 7500F as a tray version is currently listed from around 196 euros without shipping costs, while its big brothers Ryzen 5 7600 and Ryzen 5 7600X start at 226 euros and 223 euros respectively. This results in a price advantage of around 30 euros with virtually the same performance picture if you can and want to do without the integrated GPU.
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F as price-performance tip for AM5
According to Videocardz.com, these are the same Zen 4 chiplets, only with two disabled compute units for the GPU subsystems on the I/O die. In terms of price, the whole thing also corresponds to the official recommended retail price in the USA of 179 US dollars (around 165 euros plus VAT). In the first reviews, the Ryzen 5 7500F was on par with the Ryzen 5 7600 and can easily keep the Intel Core i5-13500 and Core i5-13400 at a distance.
Meanwhile, the PCGH price comparison also has a boxed version of the CPU, but without listings from retailers. A release in this form in this country is considered unlikely, since the boxed version should only be available to Chinese PC builders, while use is otherwise intended for system integrators. Accordingly, complete PCs with the CPU should follow soon.
