Question: is a ryzen 5 good?
Answer: As for performance, Ryzen 5 6-core CPUs are easily beating even the i7 4-core CPUs in heavily multi-threaded applications like video rendering, animation, etc. ... So, bottom line: yes, AMD Ryzen 5 is performing good. Ryzen is a platform that took almost 6 years to make, and it was worth the wait.