Shopping For A Launch-Day AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Laptop For Linux Testing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Shopping For A Launch-Day AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Laptop For Linux Testing

With this week's Computex announcement by AMD of the Ryzen AI 300 series laptop processors built atop Zen 5, one of the pleasant aspects has been several laptop models being announced already to be powered by either the Ryzen AI 9 365 or Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 flagship models. Some models are also already available for pre-order ahead of launch day. This is quite nice compared to in the past there was often at times quite a delay between the initial AMD Ryzen mobile announcements and being able to (pre)order any hardware. And thus I've already been looking around to coordinate near launch day Linux testing of the new AMD Zen 5 powered Ryzen AI 300 series hardware...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-AI-300-Laptop-Shopping

[Wielkie G]

Ryzen AI 9 365 is 10 core, not 6 core. It has 4 Zen 5 cores and 6 Zen 5c cores.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/300-series/amd-ryzen-ai-9-365.html

[Michael]

Ryzen AI 9 365 is 10 core, not 6 core. It has 4 Zen 5 cores and 6 Zen 5c cores.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/proc...-ai-9-365.html

Thanks, yep, fixed.

[Mitch]

Zen 5 vs Zen 5c perf and perf per watt comparisons would be so interesting. Hopefully, AMD's patches for their new heterogenous CPUs are available in 6.9 or 6.10. Not sure if the scheduler and EAS will account for it.

[kylew77]

Curious what you do with all these EXPENSIVE laptops after testing Michael? That one in this article is 1,300 dollars! That's a lot of money. Do you sell them used or what?

[raystriker]

Curious what you do with all these EXPENSIVE laptops after testing Michael? That one in this article is 1,300 dollars! That's a lot of money. Do you sell them used or what?

He probably keeps some of the SKUs for future tests. Oh that and crypto mining /s

[Michael]

Curious what you do with all these EXPENSIVE laptops after testing Michael? That one in this article is 1,300 dollars! That's a lot of money. Do you sell them used or what?

I re-use them for future tests... Future kernel comparisons, cross distro tests, comparison for future laptop reviews, etc. End up using them for a lot of content given the small number of laptops I have on hand relative to desktops or servers.

[UpSideDown]

I'm watching this with interest. I'm due a new laptop soon for light gaming, experimenting with machine vision for robotics and general use. I'm particularly interested in if I can get away with integrated graphics + NPU, or if I should go for a separate GPU.

[sophisticles]

That ASUS Zenbook S is so much nicer than anything Framework, System76, and TUXEDO put out and at a much better price point.

It makes sense, Asus is a big player and can afford to sell their products at a more competitive price point, those other three are probably barely treading water and don't have the same flexibility.

[zaps166]

3K OLED Touch Screen Laptop

Sounds like PWM... Is it possible here to test PWM frequency and PWM "brightness" threshold together with CPU and GPU benchmark?