TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 - AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Powered, Linux Laptop

Being intrigued by the TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 performing so much better than the Lenovo IdeaPad 3, I ran some additional side-by-side benchmarks just looking closer at these two laptops competing performance in various workloads on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Almost across the board, the TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 was outperforming the Lenovo IdeaPad in this Ryzen 5 5500U duel. During this benchmarking duel, the CPU thermals and power consumption were also being monitored.

Across this selection of benchmarks, the TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 was about 9% faster overall than the Lenovo laptop based on the geometric mean of all benchmark results.

Both laptops boosted to 4.1GHz and had an average CPU peak frequency at 3.2~3.3GHz, but the TUXEDO laptop was tending to spend more time in the higher performance states.

This also showed with the CPU power consumption metrics exposed through RAPL. The TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 was able to scale down as well as the Lenovo IdeaPad at idle but when encountering demanding workloads was able to draw over 40 Watts while the Lenovo IdeaPad didn't go above 32 Watts. The average CPU power draw during this large duration benchmarking was 19.7 Watts compared to 15.7 Watts.

The higher CPU power consumption did mean the TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 was running hotter than the Lenovo IdeaPad, but still not as bad as the thermal results we see with Dell XPS laptops and their frequent thermal throttling.

The other thermal metrics on the Aura 15 Gen2 were all in good shape.