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 7 of 13. 89 Comments.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 7800X3D was the fastest.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 7800X3D was the fastest.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 7800X3D was the fastest.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

The PyTorch performance on the Ryzen 5 8500G was quite favorable compared to the Intel competition and delivering excellent performance-per-Watt overall.

TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: VGG-16. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: VGG-16. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: VGG-16. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 7800X3D was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 7800X3D was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 7800X3D was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

The Ryzen 5 8500G was showing excellent power efficiency as well for TensorFlow on the CPU cores. Again, no Ryzen AI involved at this time.


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