A pretty good processor for its price. It's a good option for someone who wants to build a budget PC for 500 euros or for someone who is stuck with an old first-generation Ryzen.

For those who want it exclusively for gaming, it handles new games comfortably with around 60% usage. The only game where I noticed the CPU usage increase is The Last of Us, because this particular game had many issues at its release. With the new updates, the usage reaches about 70%. Of course, for anyone who wants detailed information about its gaming capabilities, there are videos on YouTube that analyze everything.

In terms of temperature, with its own cooler, it reaches about 70-75 degrees when performing demanding tasks, especially during the summer. It would be good for anyone who can afford to get a better cooler.

In terms of video editing, it was tested on Adobe Premiere Pro by rendering a 4k video at 30fps with moderate bitrate settings. The result was satisfactory. You can work on the timeline without any lag. The rendering time for the video is definitely longer compared to other Ryzen processors, but it is expected due to its price. The temperatures were around 73-75 degrees.

In multitasking and browsing, I didn't notice any flaws. Everything works quickly and smoothly.

In conclusion, in my opinion, this processor delivers what it promises and more. Personally, I initially bought it as a temporary processor because I had plans to get a better one in the future. However, I have changed my mind because this one fully meets my needs.

My PC:

RYZEN 5 4500

MSI RX 570 8GB

SSD Kingston 240GB

HDD 1TB

ASUS PRIME A320 mk

G.SKILL AEGIS 16GB 3200Mzh ddr4 (dual channel)

SEASONIC M12II EVO 620W

There is a saying that goes "No hardware is bad, its price is bad for its capabilities". This particular processor is not the most powerful, it does not have the most cache, you won't see 200 frames in recent games and it will probably bottleneck very powerful graphics cards, BUT it is a complete processor with 6 physical cores and 12 threads (hyperthreading technology) with respectable timing and relatively fast memory bus speed (3200mhz) at a price that someone would buy either an Athlon or Celeron/Pentium or Ryzen 3 processors which are office machine processors and come out with 4 cores without threading and slow memory bus speed. For €75 that I bought it (now it has dropped to around €70) it is excellent! If someone wants a very decent budget system without buying a graphics card, I would recommend the Ryzen 5 4600G which has the very good integrated Radeon Vega 8! Those of you who expect wild overclocking and triple A gaming with everything ultra and video editing in the blink of an eye, it would be good to dig deeper into your pockets and stop complaining about budget hardware! For their money, the Ryzen 5 4500 and Ryzen 5 4600G (with graphics) are EXCELLENT!
{CAUTION only for compatibility with motherboards because if you put it in a b450 chipset there is a chance that it will not work without a BIOS Update, first visit the website of the motherboard manufacturer and see the "CPU SUPPORT" list and look if it says next to it version "F1" or "ALL" which means that it is supported by the original BIOS}