

Poor | Average | Good | Excellent | |
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12 nm Best: HP AMD EPYC 7702 Processor lithography: 7 nm | ||||
6 Best: Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor 7290 Number of cores: 72 | ||||
3.4 GHz Best: AMD FX 9590 Clock speed: 4.7 GHz | ||||
3.9 GHz Best: Cisco Intel Xeon E5-2609 Max turbo speed: 24 GHz |
Processor socket | AM4 |
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Component for | PC |
Operating modes |
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On-board graphics adapter | no |
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Type | Not available |
Cooler included | yes |
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Thermal specification | 203.0 °F |
Clock speed | 3.4 GHz |
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Max turbo speed | 3.9 GHz |
Number of cores | 6 |
Number of threads | 12 |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 65.0 W |
Processor lithography | 0.0 in |
Cache | 16 MB |
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Cache type | L3 |
Memory clock speeds supported by processor | 2933.0 MHz |
Memory types supported by processor | DDR4 SDRAM |
Memory channels | Dual |
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The Ryzen 5 2600 is AMD's most affordable 12 nm processor you can buy, and fills the shoes of the popular Ryzen 5 1600. Thanks to its twelve threads, it will breeze through multi-threaded workloads, and its gaming performance has been improved a lot too, beating last generation's Ryzen 7 1800X flagship.
An exceptional gaming and mid-tier workstation processor.
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