Any one try the AMD AI 300 series on linux yet? I want to grab a new laptop and since Snapdragon doesnt seem to be working yet might grab an amd.
They look to be pretty good
Only disadvantage I see is that these chips seem to be only coming with soldered ram because of the need of efficiency+speed (to fight Intel’s Lunar Lake apus later this year which will have on-package DRAM)
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Not on Ryzen 9000 but I am on a Ryzen 6850 Pro (Lenovo X13 Gen3). Besides being a new CPU, the remaining features (USB 4, RDNA, high speed soldered RAM, and etc) were all implemented on this generation and work flawlessly for me.
Something to note, you need to have kernel 6.10+.
I just got a new laptop with the AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370, and am getting my arch linux install up and running. So far color me impressed on the battery life side. 12 cores with ~10+ hours of battery, activity dependent, i mean it could probably sit idle on the desktop for close to 20. For reference though i don’t have a recent comparison point, i’m upgrading form the zen 1.5 r5 5500u. If your running any amd processor and want to get the most performance or power saving out of your processor i highly recommend running the amd p-state driver on linux, it allows linux to match and even beat windows when it comes to efficiency. To me its wild that a 16inch laptop off the charger can have a reported power draw from the battery of sub 5 watts while typing this in a browser.
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Can I ask what laptop?
it the asus zenbook s16 the model is um5606w. so far with the new hardware my only warining is the new linux kernel 6.12 does not like it and locks up, have not figured out why since it contains a lot of updates for the zen 5 power management, since i would like to see how it changes batter life. Also the older kernels like 6.6 don’t have controls for backlight. right now im on kernel 6.11. Last note is x11 has some funny bussiness with the amount of touch rejection going on, casuing it to bug out. Currently im using Wayland without issues.
Can definitely feel the clock difference in the zen 5 and zen 5c cores, in applications that care more about frequnecy. Games if not in performance mode sometimes get the render thread kicked to a zen5c cores and you can tell.
I picked up the zenbook s16 its been great! 8-10 hours of battery life with web browsing / programing/image stuff and rust desk to my cad machine