AMD's new Ryzen 5 7500F could be the best budget AM5 gaming chip yet
A new AMD CPU has been hiding in plain sight. It appeared in the Puget Systems benchmark database, and it's known as the Ryzen 5 7500F. That would be interesting on its own, but after appearing in that database, a Korean retailer listed (and deleted) the 7500F for a KRW street price in the $170 to $180 USD range. And it's supposedly due to launch on July 7.
The specs of the 7500F are open to speculation. Assuming AMD follows Intel's nomenclature, it's likely the 7500F lacks integrated graphics.
The Puget Systems entry was spotted by @harukaze5719. It was listed as part of a system containing an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 and Asus X670E-F Gaming motherboard. The 7500F system scores close to what a comparable Ryzen 5 7600 system does in the same Puget Bench benchmark, namely DaVinci Resolve.
The lack of an IGP is one thing, but what about the actual chip or chips under the heat spreader of the Ryzen 5 7500F? There are two options. One is that it's based on the existing single CCD Raphael design which includes the 7600 up to the 7800X3D. The other, and less likely option, is that it's based on a mobile CPU.
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The Ryzen 5 7600 is a six-core desktop processor. It comes with a single eight-core die (with two cores disabled) and another I/O die, which includes RDNA 2 integrated graphics. This means the 7500F is almost certainly a downclocked 7600 with the IGP disabled, probably for yield reasons. AMD should have plenty of 12nm IO dies by now, and such a model makes sense.
AMD also makes monolithic mobile CPUs with up to eight Zen 4
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