Intel Core Ultra 7 "Lunar Lake" Performance Up By ~22% With ASUS Linux Fix

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 23 October 2024 at 03:00 PM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 17 Comments.
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: defconfig. Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 was the fastest.

The ASUS AIPT support in the standard mode as used by default on Windows was very important for better build performance on Linux... Rather than taking 227 seconds to compile an x86_64 Linux kernel build, it dropped to 178 seconds with this fresh kernel build albeit still behind the AMD Strix Point processors.

Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 was the fastest.
Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 was the fastest.
Timed Gem5 Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 was the fastest.
Timed Gem5 Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 was the fastest.

There was an immediate and clear difference with this new patched kernel run. It's too bad though that this ASUS AIPT support hadn't got straightened out ahead of launch.

7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Compression Rating. Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Decompression Rating. Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 was the fastest.

For some workloads the Core Ultra 7 155H is still well ahead given its 16 cores / 22 threads compared to the 8 cores/threads with the Core Ultra 7 256V.

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