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Captain_Yuri said:

AMD Speedruns Destruction of Goodwill (R5 4500 CPU Review)

Late, Slow, No Gen 4. Better to try and find a cheap 3000 series CPU than this junk.

At $75-90, it would actually be some decent entry-level CPU. But at it's $129 MSRP, it's way too expensive.

It really shows how fast the CPU market is evolving. 2 years ago, this would have been a great deal (remember the Ryzen 1600 re-release at a similar price point and how it was celebrated?), now it's already garbage.

I wish AMD would have used those old Ryzen 4000 chips and made some Athlons out of them. A Ryzen 3 4300U (which is 4c/4t unlike the 4300G, which is 4c/8t) with adapted clock speeds and maybe some cut CU on the GPU side would certainly have made a great Athlon CPU and a worthy successor to the Athlon Gold 3150G

Yea at that price point against celerons and pentiums, it would be decent but personally, I would have rather AMD just rebrand 3600 and 3300 instead of 5500 and 4500. The way AMD did their budget RDNA 2 GPUs shows the importance of Gen 4 yet Intel is the one providing that. And while it technically won't matter for anyone upgrading from 1000 series on 300/400... Well it's not much of an upgrade as it performs similarly to 2000 series. 1000 series users would be better off either getting a used 3600 or committing to 5600 or higher now that 5600 is only $200 and that will save them a motherboard upgrade instead of going to Intel.