AMD Ryzen 5 7500F desktop processor will be released on July 24 and will cost $179

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F desktop processor will be available worldwide on July 24 and will cost $179 in the US, the manufacturer announced. Earlier this month the rumor went that the processor was released exclusively in China, but that appears to be incorrect.

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

With a US MSRP of $179, it is the cheapest desktop processor in the Ryzen 5 7000 series so far. The lower price is partly because the processor does not contain an integrated GPU. While the other Ryzen 5 7000 CPUs all contain an RDNA 2 IPU with two compute units.

Based on gaming benchmarks from the Korean publication QuasarZone, which has already tested the CPU, the processor seems to largely surpass its comparable Intel counterparts, such as the Core i5-13500 and 13400. Furthermore, the CPU performs comparable to the Ryzen 5 7600, although the latter achieves slightly higher fps scores. The performance of the new CPU is also about 5 percent lower than the 7600X. The average CPU temperature and energy consumption is lower with the 7500F than with the aforementioned processors.