AMD Debuts Ryzen 5 5600F, A Significantly Nerfed Ryzen 5600 Processor with Just 4.0GHz Of Boost Clock

AMD Continues AM4 Support with New Ryzen 5 CPU

AMD has announced the Ryzen 5 5600F, a new six cores processor for the AM4 platform, nearly nine years after the socket's initial launch. According to VideoCardz, the 5600F is a lower-clocked variant of the existing Ryzen 5 5600, featuring a 3.0 GHz base clock and 4.0 GHz boost clock—300 MHz and 400 MHz lower than the standard 5600, respectively. The processor uses Vermeer (Zen 3 architecture) silicon instead of mobile Cezanne architecture, whic…

AMD is still making AM4 CPUs nine years later, as it unveils the Ryzen 5 5600F

Last Updated on September 17, 2025 AMD officially launched AM4, its last-gen socket for Ryzen processors, way back in September 2016. It arrived alongside the first Ryzen generation, the 1000 series – and we’ve come a long way since then. Socket longevity is the name of the game for AM4, and AMD told us it ...

AMD Refuses To Quit On Socket AM4 With Yet Aother Ryzen 5000 CPU Launch

AMD is writing the book on socket longevity and it's doing it with AM4, which is approaching a decade of service. Just when you thought we'd seen the last hurrah for the aging platform when AMD released a new Ryzen 5 5500X3D with 3D V-Cache earlier this summer, it's went and quietly launched yet another socket AM4 processor, the Ryzen 5 5600F.