AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-core, 12-thread unlocked desktop processor with Wraith Stealth cooler

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-core

Above the middle of our record.

12-thread unlocked desktop processor with Wraith Stealth cooler

$172.69

at Amazon

In Canada CA$249.99 at Amazon.caVerified Oct 29, 10:35 PM UTC

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$172.69 is above the middle of our record.

On October 30, 2026 the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-core costs $172.69 at Amazon. Its usual price over the 11 days we have recorded since October 20, 2026 is $163.55; the lowest we recorded was $158.98, on October 20, 2026.

The middle price across the 11 days we have watched it, counting the days a limited-time deal was running, was $163.55. That is $9.14 less than today. It reached $158.98 at least once in that time, and the high was $172.69.

Today's price is $9.14 above its usual $163.55.

This describes the prices we recorded. It is not a forecast of where this one goes next.

Price at AmazonVerified Oct 29, 8:46 PM UTC

Price history since October 20, 2026 (11 days)

One line: the best price any tracked retailer charged, per day.

Price set by a third-party seller, not the retailer itself

Rising 8% over 8 days11 days on record · 7 price changes

Use this chart elsewhere:The chart redraws itself as we record new prices.

Prices we recorded ourselves. Usual is the price on the typical day, with limited-time deals left out unless they ran on most of the days we recorded; Average is the mean of every recorded day, deals included, so a gap between the two columns is a record holding an outlier.
Price	Now	Lowest	Highest	Usual	Average	Days recorded
New	$172.69	$158.98 on Oct 20	$172.69 on Oct 28	$163.55	$165.65	11
Sold by Amazon	—	$158.98 on Oct 20	$174.08 on Oct 27	—	$165.83	11

Next time, from Amazon: change amazon.com to basketprice.com in a product’s address. This one is basketprice.com/dp/B08166SLDF.

Sales events

Next on the calendar: Black Friday, likely November 19–30. We keep checking this price through it and report here what it did.

Waiting for a sale? How often prices for PC components move, and how far they swing, beside every other category we track.

Has AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-core dropped in price?

No: $13.71 more than the $158.98 it cost on October 24, 2026: this price went up, not down.

Computed from our own checks at Amazon as of October 30, 2026. No line here uses a price a retailer told us about.

Where to buy

Amazon$172.69Go

Held for: 2d
Their 11-day low: $158.98
Checked: 8h ago

Prices checked at least every 20 hours; “held for” is how long that retailer has been charging this price. How we check prices.

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What it is

7 attributes, in the retailer’s own words. We record the prices; these we only pass on.

Size: Large
Color: Pink
Weight: 0.18 pounds
Dimensions: 1.57 × 1.57 × 0.24 inches
Model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Released: November 2020
Warranty: 3 year manufacturer

Cheaper in PC components, and what changes

Things we track on the same shelf for at least 10% less than $172.69, with the attributes the retailers describe differently. Their words, not our judgement: we record prices, we do not test products.

Every change we recorded at Amazon

Every row is a price we saw change. We write one only when a price actually moves, so a gap here means the price held.

When	Price	Change
Oct 28 · 2d ago	$172.69	−$0.01
Oct 28 · 2d ago	$172.70	+$0.70
Oct 27 · 3d ago	$172.00	−$2.08
Oct 27 · 3d ago	$174.08	+$5.09
Oct 26 · 4d ago	$168.99	+$9.99
Oct 25 · 5d ago	$159.00	+$0.02

6 older changes

When	Price	Change
Oct 24 · 6d ago	$158.98	−$0.02
Oct 24 · 6d ago	$159.00	−$3.93
Oct 24 · 6d ago	$162.93	−$0.62
Oct 22 · 8d ago	$163.55	+$4.55
Oct 22 · 8d ago	$159.00	+$0.02
Oct 20 · 10d ago	$158.98	first seen

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