As shown in today’s article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that’s only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally interesting topic for Linux users considering a Strix Halo laptop or desktop, this article is centered around the integrated Radeon 8060S graphics support and performance under Linux.
Like with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 testing, all of the Radeon 8060S benchmarks were done from the same HP ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a with this flagship Strix Halo SoC, 128GB of RAM, 2.8K display, and 2TB NVMe SSD. This is the only AMD Strix Halo system I have for Linux testing currently albeit temporary with HP review units typically needing to be returned within a few weeks. In any event over the course of this month I’ll be firing up a lot of Strix Halo Linux benchmarks.
The Radeon 8060S Graphics with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 features 40 graphics cores and a clock frequency up to 2.9GHz. The 40 CUs is a big upgrade over the 16 graphics cores found with the Radeon 890M in the likes of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Plus with the Radeon 8060G graphics is unified memory support where up to 96GB of RAM can be converted to VRAM with AMD Variable Graphics Memory support.
If you are on any modern Linux distribution released in 2025, you should basically be in good shape as far as the Radeon 8060S graphics are concerned. But the typical caveat applies when it comes to newer GPUs on open-source drivers: the newer the Linux kernel, the better; the newer the Mesa, the better. With the likes of Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 using Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, this is a nice baseline for Strix Halo and worked well in my testing so far predominantly from Ubuntu 25.04.
In this run is data both out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 25.04 with Mesa 25.0 as well as additional runs on Mesa 25.2-devel via the MesaACO PPA for up-to-date RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI Gallium3D support in various comparison points. From the benchmarks so far I haven’t noticed too much difference on Linux 6.14 while comparing Mesa 25.0 stable to Mesa 25.2 Git.
First up in this iGPU laptop comparison are all of the laptops featured in the Strix Halo CPU article while looking at the integrated graphics performance. Following all of those graphics benchmark results are then the numbers from just looking at Strix Halo compared to AMD Strix Point and Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics. In that trimmed down comparison when just looking at the newest laptops/SoC graphics performance is where there are the more interesting Linux gaming and Steam Play benchmarks, etc.
Thanks to HP for supplying the ZBook Ultra 14 G1a for Linux testing at Phoronix to deliver many CPU/iGPU benchmarks over the next few weeks.
