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GPUs and CPUs · AMD Ryzen

AMD Ryzen 5000 series

7owners with an opinion
50%of verdicts positive
0/0positive/negative since 2024
0happy after 3+ years

Praised for performance; criticized for reliability and software.

What people wrote

Likes it
Oh man, I did an upgrade from a i5-2000 series to a Ryzen 5000 series in a machine a while back and it was very worth it. It's great for compiling Rust projects compared to the Sandy Bridge processor, it's super fast. Worth it to upgrade your storage, as well, to something modern. Makes it even faster for building larger projects.
Likes it
> Biggest jump would be AVX512 support on the newer CPUs. Didn't this get removed from the "consumer" 12th gen Intel models? Regarding the speed of the AMD 5000 series, I have to agree. I only touched a laptop part, and an U at that, but it was the first new CPU that impressed me. My daily driver before that was a 3rd or 4th gen Xeon, and it was faster than the i5 desktops we had a work.
Doesn’t like it
Same experience here, as recently as with AMD's 5000 series GPUs. As far as I'm aware their OpenCL stack is still terrible, they're focusing mainly on HIP and ROCm, but it too has terrible consumer side support and an update model that makes it essentially useless as a long term investment. They include device code for every supported GPU, so they have to drop support for older cards to keep the binaries reasonably sized. In contrast, CUDA compiles down to a device agnostic intermediate language so they can support the same code on several generations of hardware, limited only by the CUDA feature level available on the hardware. AMD still has a long way to go for now. Both in terms of 'primary' functionality like supported hardware and compilers and 'secondary' functionality like detailed profiling and debugging tools.
Doesn’t like it
I'm going to add my N=1 anecdata if no one minds: I've been running full Btrfs on my workstation since December 2021 with 0 issues (kernel 5.10). It survived multiple hard reboots and power offs, Ryzen 5000 CPUs seems to lose power every now and then on Linux (it's a known issue for years now that no one has figured out yet). Having compression is great. compsize reports I've saved 33GB on my /home subvolume so far ( https://github.com/kilobyte/compsize ). I don't use snapshots, I just backup the whole thing. Obviously this doesn't mean that in the future Btrfs won't eat my data, but so far it hasn't and I'm happy.
Doesn’t like it
Their coding for AGESA doesn't seem to be any better. My Ryzen 5000 series CPU was repeatedly faulting when the system was under load until recently I updated to a beta BIOS whose only change was a newer AGESA version. (I actually thought it was my NVIDIA GPU for a while because it only happened when the GPU was being driven hard). Intel CPUs (at stock clock speeds/multipliers) never gave me stability issues.
Likes itDoesn’t say they own it
Eh, it's a trade-off for sure, but "consumer friendly" is a stretch. Intel still have the issue of requiring BIOS updates for new CPUs, and the issue with having to remove BIOS support can be solved by just telling motherboard manufacturers to spec larger for it so they have room for more. In contrast, the upside of being able to slot a Ryzen 5000 CPU into a machine that you bought for first gen is a big deal in terms of the lifetime of those other components, and gives consumers a lot of flexibility. I get some people just won't utilise that and will buy fresh, but just because it isn't worth it for you personally doesn't mean it isn't a good feature more generally.