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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
A hybrid Zen 4 + Zen 4c desktop chip carrying the smaller 4-CU RDNA 3 Radeon 740M, the cheapest way onto AM5 with a six-core CPU and basic integrated graphics. Buy it for a budget GPU-less build; buy the 8600G or 8400F if either graphics performance or full-speed cores across all six matters more.
Pros
- Radeon 740M (4 CU RDNA 3) at 2.8 GHz gives basic 1080p gaming without a discrete card, at the lowest price in the desktop 8000G lineup
- Cheapest way onto AM5 with a modern six-core/12-thread CPU, built-in graphics, and a bundled cooler (the Radeon-less 8400F undercuts it on price but has no iGPU)
- AMD EXPO memory-overclocking support carried over from the pricier 8600G/8700G, though unlike them the CPU multiplier itself is locked on this SKU
- Own compact 4 nm 'Phoenix2' monolithic die (137 mm², smaller than the 178 mm² die shared by the 8600G and 8400F), still giving the same low idle power and low memory latency edge over chiplet Ryzen 7000 parts
- Monolithic AM5 platform means a faster CPU and a discrete GPU can be dropped in later without a motherboard change
Cons
- Only 2 of the 6 cores are full-speed Zen 4; the other 4 use the slower Zen 4c design, so single-core-heavy work on those cores lags behind the 8600G/8400F
- Radeon 740M has half the compute units of the 760M in the 8600G, so integrated gaming performance is noticeably lower
- Native PCIe lanes drop to 14 (10 usable), fewer than the 20 on the 8600G/8400F, limiting NVMe and expansion options
- Unlike the 8600G/8400F, the CPU multiplier is locked, so only memory overclocking (via EXPO) is possible, not core-clock overclocking
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: single-core still needs a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
General
- Announced
- 2024
- Socket
- AM5
- Process
- 4 nm
- Base TDP
- 65 W
- Max turbo power
- 88 W
- Unlocked multiplier
- No
- Cooler included
- Yes
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 6
- Performance cores
- 2
- Efficiency cores
- 4
- Threads
- 12
- Base clock
- 3.5 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5 GHz
- L2 cache
- 6 MB
- L3 cache
- 16 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- AMD Radeon 740M (4 CU RDNA 3)
- iGPU clock
- 2,800 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR5-5200
- Max memory
- 96 GB
- Memory channels
- 2
Platform
- PCIe version
- 4
- CPU PCIe lanes
- 14
Benchmarks
- PassMark
- 21,365Bottom 38%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G good in 2026?
We haven't scored the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G yet: there are no published single-core benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. A hybrid Zen 4 + Zen 4c desktop chip carrying the smaller 4-CU RDNA 3 Radeon 740M, the cheapest way onto AM5 with a six-core CPU and basic integrated graphics. Buy it for a budget GPU-less build; buy the 8600G or 8400F if either graphics performance or full-speed cores across all six matters more.
What are the key specs of the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G?
Cores: 6 · Threads: 12 · Boost clock: 5 GHz · Socket: AM5
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 5 8600G, AMD Ryzen 5 5500, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
