The powerful AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is down to a super-low price at Amazon UK
A mega price for a great CPU.
These last few months have certainly proved that AMD's Ryzen 5000 series of processors, when at the right price, make for some incredible value propositions, even in the face of the rise of Ryzen 7000. An excellent example of this is the Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD's cheapest 8 core/16 thread chip. It can be yours for £151 from Amazon EU at the moment, sold on Amazon UK, beating an earlier price cut to make this an even more amazing deal.
The only way of getting some more powerful gaming performance out of eight cores and 16 threads in the Ryzen 5000 lineup is to go for the 5800X3D chip, which costs nearly double the standard 5800X, making this chip an incredible value proposition right out of the gate. On the point of that, the 5800X is a solid chip, especially thanks to its boost clock of 4.7GHz and base of 3.8GHz. The core counts have also doubled compared to the previous Zen 2 based chips, while the processors themselves also don't draw any more power than their predecessors, according to their rated TDPs, which also makes them more efficient.
In delving into the numbers in our 5800X review, this CPU was also especially close to its more powerful (and more expensive) brother, the 5900X in the likes of Assassin's Creed Odyssey at 1080p. It may also be a little slower than the Intel 10900K, but it's still an especially capable chip. The 5800X is also well-suited for content creation, too, as highlighted within our Cinebench R20 scores which at the time, were the highest we'd ever seen. The single core scores were 18 percent higher than the previous highest Ryzen chip, and 17 percent higher than the equivalent Intel processor, the top performing 10900K. Intriguingly, the 5800X's multi core score in Cinebench also came close to a processor with 50 percent fewer physical cores, and within spitting distance of the Core i9 10900K, with its 10 cores and 20 threads.
Opting for the 5800X also makes sense from the point that other components are also coming down in price, or are relatively affordable as it is. Compatible motherboards that are packed with modern features are getting especially reasonable, while fast NVMe PCIe 4.0 storage is constantly getting cheaper, and capable DDR4 RAM can be had for peanuts these days. It makes Ryzen 5000 an excellent platform to build on from the point of price vs performance.
The Ryzen 7 5800X represents quite the excellent value for money processor, and for £151 from Amazon, you'll be hard-pressed to find something more powerful for the price.