China at the moment is quite closed due to the happy coronavirus and it seems that infections are reducing. The Chinese market is normally one of the most important in the world. With this market in mind, which demands cheap and good quality hardware, AMD has launched the Ryzen 5 3500X processor. This processor will not be launched commercially, it will only be launched on the OEM market in China.
Remember that AMD is currently lowering the price of the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 3900X to make things difficult for Intel. Comet Lake-S is about to hit the market to replace Coffee Lake Refresh-S with more cores but on the 14nm node. The Ryzen 5 3500X poses another problem for Intel.
[amazon box="B07SXMZLPK"]AMD launches the Ryzen 5 3500X in China
This AMD processor has a total of 6 cores and 6 threads, being a trimmed version of the Ryzen 5 3600X. Note that the Ryzen 5 3500X works at 3.6GHz and comes in Boost mode at 4.1GHz. It comes especially to compete with the Intel Core i5-9400F, since it has the same number of cores and threads. This AMD processor will be launched for 137 euros and the Core i5 is around 150 euros.
Ryzen 5 3500X under PCMark 10 offers 4% more performance than the Core i5-9400F. The AMD processor offers about 1FPS more than the Intel processor. Being more efficient and a little cheaper.
Without a doubt we are facing an excellent processor for a very demanding market such as the Chinese. This market very fond of video games tends to like 1080p gaming and is looking for a lot of cheap hardware. Now China is closed and sales are down quite a bit, but this could change shortly. AMD is very well positioned in a very important market where they sell a lot of hardware.
Source: TC
LOL, it's been selling in China like 4 or 5 months, they don't launch it now. Now they launch it in the rest of the world.
Several months ago you could buy it on Aliexpress until AMD vetoed its sale.