I Tested the Cheapest Ryzen CPU on EVERY GPU
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Sep 11, 2026 16:24
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Right now the Ryzen 5 5500 is one of the cheapest and most popular Ryzen processors on the planet. But how does it actually behave when paired up with modern GPUs and as a drop in upgrade for an older CPU? Well we benchmarked the 5500 against a 2600X with EVERY one of them, from a RTX 5090 all the way down to an RX 9050 and GTX 1080Ti. And the results, especially on NVIDIA GPUs, will probably surprise you.
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