Besides the integrated RDNA3 graphics making the Ryzen 8000G series desktop APUs interesting, making the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G a fun benchmarking target besides its sub-$200 price tag is having a mix of Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores.
After looking at the Ryzen 8000G series performance at 35 Watt and 45 Watt cTDPs and 500+ benchmarks of the Ryzen 8500G/8600G against the Intel Core i3 14100 / i5 14500, one of the other follow-up benchmarking specials I wanted to explore was more testing on the Zen 4 vs. Zen 4C performance for the Ryzen 5 8500G.
But under Linux there is at least the ability to offline CPU cores…
There’s also the avenue of testing by ensuring task placement / isolation to particular CPU cores for workloads, but then the other CPU0 or similar is still online and can be spinning kernel work…