Processor · what to pair with it

What to pair with the Ryzen 5 5600G

AM4 · 65W · $115. This processor can feed about 100 fps in big games. Past that, more card is money that never turns into frames.

Read at 1440p, AAA gaming, against 82 graphics cards in the catalogue.

The most card it can feed

RX 9070

$604

About 100 fps at 1440p, with the card setting the pace rather than the processor. A bigger card than this one would be waiting on the Ryzen 5 5600G.

The full verdict on this pair

Graphics cards in step with it

59 of 82 are a fair match, and these are the fastest of them. The three columns are the same pairing read at each resolution: a graphics card that holds this one back at 1080p is often invisible at 4k, which is the whole reason the answer depends on the screen.

graphics cardprice1080p1440p4k
RX 9070$60410010060
RX 9070 XT$70010010070
RX 7900 XT$82510010066
RTX 4070 Ti$87910010062
RTX 4070 Ti Super$93410010065
RTX 3090 Ti$1,09910010065
RTX 5070 Ti$1,10010010070
RTX 4070 Super$6591009757
RTX 3090$9351009760
RX 6950 XT$5501009556

Frames are an estimate and move with the game and the settings. Prices are the catalogue’s, each with the date it was read on its own part.

Do not put it with these

8 of 82 are flagged at 1440p. In each of these one side cannot keep up with the other, so part of what you paid for sits idle.

A whole machine around it

Board, memory, drive, supply, cooling and case, picked to a budget and checked for fit.

Every graphics card we have

The same page for each of them, and what each one is worth pairing with.

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