AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A Surprisingly Fascinating Sub-$200 CPU
As with the Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 7 8700G, the Ryzen 5 8500G was running fine on Linux with AMD's open-source support. For the purposes of this leading-edge testing the benchmarks were done on Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.7 kernel and Mesa 24.1-devel across all tested processors.
The processors tested for this Ryzen 5 8500G focused comparison included:
- Ryzen 5 5600G
- Ryzen 7 5700G
- Ryzen 5 7600X
- Ryzen 7 7700
- Ryzen 7 7700X
- Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- Ryzen 9 7900
- Ryzen 9 7900X
- Ryzen 9 7900X3D
- Ryzen 9 7950X
- Ryzen 9 7950X3D
- Ryzen 5 8500G
- Ryzen 5 8600G
- Ryzen 7 8700G
- Core i3 14100
- Core i5 14500
- Core i5 14600K
- Core i9 14900K
All the AMD AM5 CPUs were tested using the ASRock B650 PRO RS that was supplied as part of the review kit for the 8000G series along with the GSKILL DDR5-6400 2 x 16GB memory. Let's see how this sub-$200 processor is performing on Linux not only for raw performance as well as CPU power consumption and overall efficiency.