AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A Surprisingly Fascinating Sub-$200 CPU

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 7 February 2024 at 10:20 AM EST. Page 10 of 13. 89 Comments.
ASTC Encoder benchmark with settings of Preset: Exhaustive. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
ASTC Encoder benchmark with settings of Preset: Exhaustive. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
ASTC Encoder benchmark with settings of Preset: Exhaustive. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

The Ryzen 5 8500G shows a lot of potential for low-power servers.

nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 500. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.
nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.
nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.
nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.

The Ryzen 5 8500G could even be adapted for a low-power web server for local development / testing purposes or other small traffic serving.

OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: AES-256-GCM. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20-Poly1305. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

Even for multi-threaded OpenSSL testing the Ryzen 5 8500G tended to pull just 50 Watts or less.


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