Earlier this month we looked at the Linux laptop performance of AMD’s Krackan Point using the Ryzen AI 5 340 within a HP OmniBook 5 that can be found for as low as ~$450 during sales. For six Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics, Krackan Point worked well as a budget Linux laptop option. For those wondering how the Linux vs. Windows 11 performance compares for the budget HP OmniBook, here are some benchmarks.
Prior to wiping the Microsoft Windows 11 Home installation as shipped by HP on the OmniBook 5, I ran some benchmarks of that default Windows 11 install with all stable updates as of the end of July. That was followed by carrying out a clean install of the current Ubuntu 25.04 release and testing it out-of-the-box with the Linux 6.14 kernel, Mesa 25.0 graphics drivers, and other default packages for that current Ubuntu Linux release.
The HP OmniBook 5 Laptop 16z-ag100 8DF4 as used for testing can be found in the US in the ~$450 range brand new during HP sales. This laptop was equipped with the 6-core Krackan Point AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 with Radeon 840M Graphics, 16GB of LPDDR5-7500 memory, 1200p display, and 512GB Western Digital SN5000S SDEPNSJ-512G-1006 SSD.
In prior months we have looked at the Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for AMD Strix Halo and other high-end hardware while the benchmarks today are for reference purposes at the opposite end of the spectrum with the budget-minded Krackan Point.
