AMD's Ryzen 5 3500X and 3500 processors have reappeared online, although this time the list seems to indicate that these processors will run on different base clocks (which was not the case with previous speculations). ).
The new leaks (spotted by Anandtech) on the budget processors that are supposed to arrive soon come from two separate sources, the first being MSI, which added the Ryzen 5 3500X to the list of chips compatible with its MEG X570 motherboard (although not the 3500).
Information on the 3500X in the MSI support database reveals a base clock speed of 3.6 GHz, as well as a 65 W TDP cache and 32 MB L3 cache. This all matches exactly what was said before, and the presence of the processor in the official support documentation of a major motherboard manufacturer certainly shows that this processor really does arrive (if any doubt remains due to the weight of late rumors) .
What gets even more interesting, though, is Amazon's second leak, which is a list of products for an HP Pavilion desktop.
The details of this game console show that it is built around a 3500 Ryzen 5 processor, which is listed with a 3.4 GHz base clock (no other information is communicated to other than the fact that it is a six-core chip, these two chips would be six-core, six-wire, based on previous rumors.)
So even though the graphics word above had these two processors running at a 3.6 GHz base clock, this would seem to indicate that only the 3500X is indexed at that speed, the 3500 dropping to 3.4 GHz, which would make sense to us.
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Based on previous rumors, the only difference between the two chips is simply the amount of cache memory (32MB for the 3500X and 16MB for its cheaper sibling, which may still be the case, because the former is certainly true according to MSI. .)
Of course, this assumes that Amazon did not make a mistake on its list and simply posted an incorrect clock speed. In any case, it is just speculation, although the obvious evidence is that these chips are arriving and will be very soon: The shipping date of this HP gaming PC is scheduled for October 20.
In reference to the newly released so-called marketing slides, these chips will challenge Intel's popular Core i5 9400F. We've already seen several benchmark reports showing the 3500X outperforming the Intel processor.
Naturally, this will depend a lot on how AMD delivers these new 9400rd Gen Ryzen processors compared to the XNUMXF's starting price tag, and we can only guess until the official announcement.
The 3500X is likely to cost a bit more than the Core i5-9400F, which costs around € 140 at the time of writing, while the Ryzen 5 3500 will likely lower it.
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