AMD made a big comeback with its high-end Ryzen 7 CPUs, and it's now ready to take on Intel's Core i5 mid-range chips with the Ryzen 5. It's offering four chips in the family ranging from the $169 Ryzen 5 1400, a 3.2 GHZ 4-core, 8-thread chip, to the 6-core, 3.6Ghz Ryzen 5 1600X. At $249, the latter is taking on Intel's $242 4-core/4-thread Core i5-7600K, but offering two more cores and three times the thread count.
Source: AMD