AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmarks: The Fantastic Power Efficiency Of Zen 5

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmarks: The Fantastic Power Efficiency Of Zen 5

As noted in yesterday's launch-day AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 review with 100+ benchmarks, I've also been testing an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Zen 5 laptop too. Here are those initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 as the 10-core / 20-thread laptop Zen 5 SoC. Like with the HX 370 testing, the Ryzen AI 9 365 continues to reinforce the great power efficiency uplift of Zen 5 as one of the most exciting advancements. In fact, for many benchmarks the Ryzen AI 9 365 was delivering even greater performance per Watt than the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-9-365

[DumbFsck]

Thank you Michael for the great coverage in testing and quick turn around.

I'm also excited to Ryzen 9000 this coming August, agree that it should be interesting.


From the tech poutine podcast, apparently zen 5 is actually the first BIG redesign since Zen dropped. I don't know if AMD is planning a ryzen 10000 (or whatever) with Zen 5+. The gains from Zen to Zen+ were amazing back in '17 and since Zen 5 seems to be more different than 4 than every other numbered release maybe there are similar improvements to be found. Either way, Ryzen 9000 with 150W (or 90, 65, w/e) should rip. Hopefully.



Either way, awful sku segmentation. It's all fine and dandy giving integrators or OEMs freedom to ship devices for 20W or 50W etc, but using the same name is aweful. You could buy a Ryzen AI 9 nnn and have a much higher performance than someone who buys Ryzen AI 9 >nnn, simply because of power limits.

[Mathias]

What are the idle power consumptions for these systems?

[tera]

I originally thought it unlucky that AMD sent you nearly the same model you already preordered. But after reading the article and seeing the interesting results I am glad this happened!

I'd suspect a good part of the difference stems from the lower RAM size on the 365 rather than the lower core count and slightly smaller cache. I also wonder how Asus laid out the 24GB?

[Michael]

I originally thought it unlucky that AMD sent you nearly the same model you already preordered. But after reading the article and seeing the interesting results I am glad this happened!

I'd suspect a good part of the difference stems from the lower RAM size on the 365 rather than the lower core count and slightly smaller cache. I also wonder how Asus laid out the 24GB?

It's SoC power, so not RAM power included. The RAM was a 4 x 6GB as noted in system table.

[lamka02sk]

That naming scheme is terrible

[skeevy420]

That naming scheme is terrible

And I think phonetically HX is pronounced Hicks. AI 9 Hicks 375

AI 9 365 isn't so bad from that perspective. IMHO, it should have been AI 7 365. I know it's a Ryzen 9 class CPU, but come on, 7 365 is a great product number.

Ryzen AI 7 365. The Ryzen to get you through the week.

[sarmad]

Pretty nice. From the few reviews popping up about it these days it seems its power efficiency is close to that of Snapdragon. Can x86 eventually catch up to the power efficiency of ARM?

[mb_q]

I am honestly mostly impressed that a modern Asus machine can run Linux... Can it do miracles like going out of suspend reliably or booting without several "ACPI is messed up" kernel errors?

[Dukenukemx]

Pretty nice. From the few reviews popping up about it these days it seems its power efficiency is close to that of Snapdragon. Can x86 eventually catch up to the power efficiency of ARM?

AMD was ahead of Qualcomm X Elites, and nearly matched Apple's M3's. These new chips just push AMD beyond Apple. Would love to see some benchmarks to confirm but nobody actually uses Macs.