AMD Ryzen5 CPUs To Be Available for Desktop PCs Starting April 11 

AMD announced Ryzen5 desktop processors will launch worldwide on April 11, 2017. Aimed primarily at gamers and creators, the new Ryzen5 processors feature the powerful and efficient “Zen” architecture in 6-core,12-thread as well as 4-core, 8-thread options, with a price range of $169 to $249 USD.

“Ryzen will ultimately bring innovation and competition to virtually every segment of the PC market, and Ryzen 5 is the next big step on that journey, designed to achieve new levels of compute performance for millions of PC users,” said Jim Anderson, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics Group, AMD. “AMD reinvigorated the high-performance desktop market with Ryzen 7 earlier this month, and AMD Ryzen 5 now brings the power and efficiency of the “Zen” core to users in the highly popular sub-$300 segment of the market.”