AMD Ryzen 5 5605G: What Real Users Actually Think

They just keep finding silicon down the back of the couch.

Lisa Su became CEO of AMD in 2014. Coincidence? She's the best thing that could've happened.

Re-releasing old CPUs with slightly different clocks is not extending the AM4 platform. The last actually new CPU on AM4 was the 5800X3D in early 2022 (or the 5600X3D in 2023, though that one's not retail). Everything after that was just a re-release with slightly different clock speeds and prices.

How about you make some more 5800xds.

A cheap six core or even a quad core with an 890m is all they need to do.

Never gonna give AM4 up. Never gonna let AM4 down. Wow that's lots of 5600... 5600X / 5600G / 5600 / 5600X3D / 5600GT / 5600XT / 5600T / 5600F

Let's make it 10 years, chief. AM4 is the best platform in the history of mankind.

Any X3D AM4 CPU after the 5800X3D would be considered a lowered binning of that CPU. The 5700X3D just can't clock as high as the 5800X3D but the performance difference is negligible.

Honestly if they want these to sell, they just need to stop giving them less cache and PCIe lanes compared to their regular counterparts. Half of the reason why people don't buy these is because as a CPU, they're worse than their regular counterparts in many aspects, so when it's actually time to upgrade to a dedicated GPU, you'd be getting worse performance than if you've bought the non-G variant.

Extending a platform does not equal a new CPU. And 5600X3D was also not a new CPU, it's the same die as 5800X3D that doesn't meet all the requirements to be a 5800X3D, just like how this one is using the same 8-core die as 5700X.

I built a m-atx system for my father in law who wanted a quiet computer to replace his ten year old laptop. He doesn't game, and the 8600G was plenty powerful enough for his needs. The heaviest workload would be some light photo editing. One happy dude. Spent just shy of 1000€ which was a great deal IMO.

While that's true, there still is a huge amount of overhead for adding a new sku, whether it is new silicon or not. You need a new agesa and you have to get all your board partners to update decade-old products as well, which also helps encourage security updates for boards that might have otherwise aged out of support. AMD absolutely deserves the applause they're getting for this.

IMO the entire point of an APU is for the cost, heat, and power savings over a dedicated GPU... and you can probably cram it into a smaller case. I was just thinking of swapping in a 5700G as used they go for about the same as my 3700X alone but would be more power efficient removing the GPU entirely.

The 5600g is good in the following situations: Tight budget, not enough for discrete gpu. Tight space, not enough for a discrete gpu, also small form factor rigs, which are appealing to some. Tight PSU limitations, not enough for a discrete gpu. It's just cool to run games on playable fps on igpu.

They are just handing out 5600 series like Oprah. You get a 5600 series, you get a 5600 series, EVERYONE GETS A 5600 SERIES!

Keep AM4 alive.

Between the 5600(X), 5700G, 5700, and now 5600F, I don't see how anyone is supposed to make heads or tails of it if they aren't deeply into it.

APUs are extremely popular in low-income countries.

You'll be fine. It's not going to be a massive difference for casual gaming. Once you get the RX 6600 you're set for 1080p. If you find the budget to upgrade at some point in the future you can always drop in a 5600x3d. They should also be available cheap on the second-hand market in a few years.

I wouldn't worry much about 'future proofing' with those CPUs, get 4600g if it's that much cheaper, some decent b550m like phantom gaming 4 with decent vrm so you can upgrade to 5600/5700 or 5800x3d in future without worrying about motherboard.

As long as people are still interested in it there's no reason to stop, especially since it's probably much cheaper to produce than newer chips since it's on 7nm, which has likely gotten even cheaper. Most people likely wouldn't even be able to tell the difference between a 5600G and an 8600G, especially those that are likely to buy prebuilts.

AM4 is on the sweetspot between performance and price, hell, even more right now. Wish they continue with x3d manufacturing for AM4.

Likely just a corporate/retail thing, where AMD promises to partners to release new chips for low-end office PCs, even if in name only.

Several of the chips they've done this with have been relatively low volume. They don't really expect to sell a lot of these though so it doesn't matter, it's just otherwise wasted silicon. Usually this kind of thing would have just resulted in a lower binning of the already existing stack rather than making a new SKU.

The 5600g is still a very good option for a user in your circumstances. Yes it gives up a little performance to the 5600, but you gain all the flexibility of being able to game fairly well on the 5600g for as long as you need it. When you move to a 6600 you, the upgrade will still be very significant.

Can you blame them when it continues to sell well for those that are still on the AM4 platform?

In theory, you should get a 5600 instead of a 5600G if you are planning to add an RX 6600. The 5600G is a bit slower than the 5600, it has less cache and - most importantly - it only supports PCIe 3 instead of PCIe 4, so any graphics cards and SSDs will run a bit slower. In practice, the difference between an RX 6600 running on PCIe 3 and PCIe 4 is about 2-4 FPS. It's not something to cry about.

I think for your case is an excellent choice. It won't bottleneck that much your RX6600 in the future and will allow you to play some games while you save money for the GPU. In the meantime, it will make you want the RX6600 even more every time you play.

I have a home server on a 5600g, including a cheap PSU and cheap motherboard (because it's mostly solar energy anyway). The whole box, including 2 mechanical hard drives and 1 SSD, consumed about 40watt. I don't want to say it's idle, because I always have evcc, unifi network controller and home assistant/ZigBee running.

AMD APUs consume less power on idle than the CPUs as it is a monolithic design instead of chiplet. On windows it can idle under 10w iirc, and its overall performance is much better than intel except for the iGPU transcoding.

It's not a typo, they are listed as xx05G on AMD's website. They look like a boxed-only CPU (no tray SKU) packaged WITHOUT a cooler. The xx00G are listed with coolers.

I recently built myself a home server with 5650G PRO + ECC RAM. Works fine. ECC also seems to work, needed a 'PRO' CPU to be properly supported. I got the CPU used from Ebay. Not using it for gaming though.

I'm from Brazil and I can confirm nobody is building these recent AM5 APUs or mini PCs as a budget PC because the value is very poor. With almost the same money we can build a whole Ryzen 5500 + RX6600 rig which is 100-150% faster in games.

I'm enjoying it. It's punching above it's weight so far to me. For example, I mainly play Apex Legends, most benchmarks on YT showed ranges from 30 to 45 fps at 1080p, meanwhile I'm getting constantly above 60 at the same resolution.

For frigate what matter is GPU. And the difference on encoding capability is night and day, for Intel. The AMD CPU you selected is overkill in terms of RAW performance and totally useless for the amount of task you need.

The AMD APUs are stronger than the Intel iGPUs. But they have worse video hardware.

Either of those CPUs will be fine with either of those GPUs. The 4600g is slightly better than the 3600 and the 5600g is 10-15% better and the 3600 would be a good match with either GPU so you'll be fine with any of that hardware.

I have a 5600g in my htpc with 3600c16 ram timings. It does casual emulation just fine. I can play CS2 on the couch with it at 1080p with decent smoothness.

Don't think of the TDP numbers as actual power draw. Those are more like guidelines for cooling. Also the rest of the system would also draw power. You might be better off with a NAS system or maybe a Raspberry Pi.

My AM4 has been playing Borderlands 4 just fine. And I only have a 5600x.

Of course they're going to milk it and I'm going to buy 5705G as soon as it hits the shelves lol.