Designed for high-performance gaming and processing, the Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5 GHz Quad-Core AM4 Processor from AMD has a base clock speed of 3.5 GHz and a maximum turbo frequency of 3.7 GHz. Additionally, this processor features four cores with eight threads in an AM4 socket with 2MB of L2 cache memory and 16MB of L3 cache memory. Having four cores allows the processor to run multiple programs simultaneously without slowing down the system, while the eight threads allow a basic ordered sequence of instructions to be passed through or processed by a single CPU core. This processor also has a TDP of 65W.