AMD Ryzen 5 9500F Is Coming To Give The 7500F A Budget Beatdown

AMD is now official with its Ryzen 5 9500F, a budget processor that is releasing first to China and could make its way to other territories, just as we saw with the previous generation Ryzen 5 7500F. To be clear, AMD hasn't announced any plans for a global release, but if history repeats itself then it's only a matter of time before the Ryzen 5 9500F becomes more broadly available.

A product listing on AMD's database in China reveals that the new part is a 6-core/12-thread chip just like it's predecessor. However, it's on AMD's latest-generation Zen 5 architecture.

Clock speeds are similar too, though not identical. Both the Ryzen 5 9500F and Ryzen 5 7500F can boost up to 5GHz, but the newer part features a 3.8GHz base clock, which is 100MHz higher than the 7500F.

Similarly, both chips sport 32MB ...