https://wccftech.com/ryzen-5-3500x-currently-the-cheapest-amd-6-core-desktop-cpu-you-can-buy/

AMD's Ryzen 5 3500X is now available at major online retailers and might just be the cheapest 6 core Zen CPU you can buy right now. The AMD Ryzen 5 3500X was launched back in 2019 along with the Ryzen 5 3500X and was then aimed at the 9th Gen Intel Core lineup. However, the lineup offers great performance to budget users and might be the best option for them if they're eyeing a 6 core chip.

The AMD Ryzen 5 3500X and the Ryzen 5 3500 might be aggressively priced 6 core chips for their time but back then, AMD was competing with Intel who was reluctant to offer SMT on its budget & mainstream chips. As such, the Ryzen 5 3500 series CPUs also came with no SMT support and as such, only had 6 threads adjacent to the 6 cores. Now modern applications and games scale well with a higher number of threads, especially AMD's whose SMT performance is widely recognized as being stellar over Intel. Even without SMT, the AMD Ryzen 5 3500 series CPUs offer good value if you are primarily building a budget AMD PC.