Which review are you reading? The 8500G beats the 5700G and the 5600G in every comparison with Watts per some performance metric. https://phoronix.com/benchmar

Which review are you reading? The 8500G beats the 5700G and the 5600G in every comparison with Watts per some performance metric. https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/pytorch-cpu-1-resnet-50-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/pytorch-cpu-64-resnet-50-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/tensorflow-cpu-1-resnet-50-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/tensorflow-cpu-1-vgg-16-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/tensorflow-cpu-64-resnet-50-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/ffmpeg-libx265-platform-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/ffmpeg-libx265-video-on-demand-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/svt-av1-preset-13-bosphorus-4k-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/svt-vp9-vqo-bosphorus-4k-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/kvazaar-bosphorus-4k-medium-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/astc-encoder-exhaustive-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/nginx-1000-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... <- An Intel I5(and only the I5) beats AMD on this singular benchmark. https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/embree-pathtracer-ispc-crown-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/7-zip-compression-dr-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linux-benchmarks/quantlib-multi-threaded-1.svgz https://phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-linu... Yes, the 5700g and 5600g can score lower amount of peak power, but you need to compare the power used against a metric like time to calculate efficiency. The $179 8500G is competing with the $449 Ryzen 7 7800X3D in efficiency. It's a blood bath.