AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Linux Performance

Across the span of dozens of benchmarks conducted under Linux with both single abd multi-threaded workloads, the Ryzen 7 5700G had an average power draw of 45 Watts and a peak of 89 Watts as recorded by the RAPL interface. As mentioned, unfortunately no thermal measurements for this article with the k10temp driver not supporting the CPU temperature monitoring until the Linux 5.15 cycle. That is the only rather small but silly issue found so far with the Ryzen 7 5700G is the lack of timely support for the temperature reporting for Ryzen 5000 series APUs.

Aside from the missing k10temp patch and that having been left up to the community after the fact than by AMD engineers pre-launch, the Ryzen 7 5700G has been performing well under Linux. The Radeon graphics with the Ryzen 7 5700G have been working out well and in great shape with great desktop APU graphics potential. The Ryzen 7 5700G with eight cores / sixteen threads allows for great performance and more potential than prior APUs with lower core counts. Having just 16MB of L3 cache compared to 32MB with the likes of the Ryzen 5 5600X hurt its performance in some benchmarks, but overall it was a good showing out of the 5700G.

Further Linux tests of the Ryzen 7 5700G are ongoing at Phoronix still due to having just purchased this CPU recently. If there is enough interest I will also work on procuring on a Ryzen 5 5600G for Linux testing, unfortunately due to not receiving any Ryzen 5000 series APU review samples this round. Those interested in even more Ryzen 7 5700G performance figures at the moment can see the Ryzen 7 5700G composite results on OpenBenchmarking.org and compare it to a wide array of other CPUs where there are common test profiles / versions matching of completed tests with enough statistically significant data. From there you can also enter your own local/available pricing for compared products to generate performance-per-dollar metrics. There is also more metrics via the Ryzen 7 5700G percentile ranking across various workloads as well as the cpuinfo/lspci for those interested.