Linux 6.5+ Is Great For The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 / AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 20 October 2023 at 01:03 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 23 Comments.
Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2880 x 1800, Effects Quality: Ultra. Linux 6.4.16 was the fastest.
Tesseract benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2880 x 1800. Linux 6.5.5 was the fastest.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2880 x 1800. Linux 6.4.16 was the fastest.
Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2880 x 1800, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Low, Renderer: OpenGL. Linux 6.4.16 was the fastest.
VKMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2880 x 1800, Present Mode: Mailbox. Linux 6.5.5 was the fastest.
GLmark2 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2880 x 1800. Linux 6.6 Git was the fastest.

For those wondering about the integrated RDNA3 graphics with the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U on the ThinkPad P14s Gen 4, there were no measurable changes found from Linux 6.4 to Linux 6.6 Git.

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: defconfig. Linux 6.4.16 was the fastest.
Timed Mesa Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 6.4.16 was the fastest.
Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 6.4.16 was the fastest.

There weren't any measurable changes to the build times for those doing software development from laptop systems.

Timed Mesa Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 6.4.16 was the fastest.
Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 6.4.16 was the fastest.

But there were very slight power-savings with Linux 6.5+.


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