Intel Lunar Lake vs. AMD Strix Point Platform Profile Performance Comparison

The power profile with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 ASUS laptop saw slightly better performance in the "performance" mode while the Core Ultra 7 256V numbers between balance_performance and performance were flat -- potentially due to the "Whisper" mode noted at the beginning of the article. In the power profile, both laptops saw much slower performance but with much greater power efficiency. In the case of the Core Ultra 7 256V it was running these workloads at around 3 Watts.

Or with the demanding RawTherapee RAW imaging program, the power profile led the Lunar Lake laptop to a 4.8 Watt average compared to 15 Watts while the Ryzen AI 9 365 went from 18 Watts down to 9 Watts.

For demanding multi-threaded creator applications, the power profile still led to the best performance-per-Watt but the higher core/thread counts on the Ryzen AI 9 365 allowed it to yield better efficiency over the Lunar Lake SoC.

In any event for those trying to be productive on the road or otherwise running on battery power, the "power" profile led to a nice bump in performance-per-Watt.