WEBThe AMD Ryzen 5 5500 is a desktop processor with 6 cores, launched in April 2022, at an MSRP of $159. It is part of the Ryzen 5 lineup, using the Zen 3 (Cezanne) architecture with Socket AM4. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 12 threads.