Recently we compared the 5-year-old Ryzen 5 1600 to the new Ryzen 5 5600 on an old B350 motherboard to see just how much of an upgrade the Zen 3 processor is – and spoiler – it's a massive upgrade ...

The successor to our favorite best value CPU, the Ryzen 5 3600 is AMD's new $200 6-core, 12-thread processor. The chip clocks between 3.6 GHz and 4.2 GHz, features a 32MB L3 cache and a 65 watt TDP.

One of AMD's finest Zen 2 CPUs is surely due a Black Friday discount. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AMD and its retail partners ...