AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Linux Performance

In total I ran more than 160 Linux benchmarks on this collection of freshly benchmarked processors. Those wanting to see all the individual data in full can do so via the result page.

When looking at the CPU power consumption over the span of ~12 hours benchmarking each processor, here is how the CPU power consumption data compares. The Ryzen 5 8600G on average was pulling around 58 Watts to the Ryzen 7 8700G at 59 Watts, but the peak difference was more significant with the 8600G at 172 Watts to the 8700G hitting as high as 204 Watts but typically having similar power draw. The Core i5 14500 that is priced similarly to the Ryzen 5 8600G had a 57 Watt average like the 8600G, but the peak CPU power consumption went as high as 214 Watts... The Core i5 14500 typically did have an average quite close to the 8600G, but it was the peak numbers that were often significantly greater.

When taking the geometric mean of the 160+ benchmarks from graphics tests to single and multi-threaded CPU/system workloads, the Ryzen 5 8600G nearly matched the Ryzen 7 7700 -- in part thanks to the very great RDNA3 integrated graphics performance while for CPU bound workloads tended to be more similar to the Ryzen 5 7600X. When taking the geometric mean of all the benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8600G was 12% faster than the Core i5 14500 Raptor Lake Refresh CPU all while costing around $10 less. These results are also not taking into account the potential for the Ryzen AI NPU that will be tested with AMD's new Linux driver soon.

Overall at around $229 USD the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G is a very interesting 6-core / 12-thread desktop processor with very capable RDNA3 integrated graphics. If you are running on a modern desktop Linux distribution you should be in good shape for enjoying the Radeon 760M/780M integrated graphics on AMD's open-source Linux driver.