Processor · what to pair with it

What to pair with the Ryzen 5 8500G

AM5 · 65W · €125. This processor can feed about 90 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 7900 GRE

€605

About 90 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 8500G.

The full verdict on this pair

Graphics cards in step with it

50 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 6950 XT€528909056
RX 9070€576909060
RX 7900 GRE€605909052
RTX 4070 Super€638909057
RTX 3080 Ti€660909058
RTX 5070€700909055
RTX 3090€825909060
RTX 4070 Ti€825909062
RTX 3090 Ti€990909065
RX 6900 XT€440908852

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

15 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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