Over the past three months we have been excitedly testing AMD’s Strix Halo SoC with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 flagship model as well as the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 as one step below. Strix Halo offers excellent CPU and GPU performance capabilities at the top-end if your budget allows. But at the opposite end and a step below the Strix Point SoCs that have been available the past year is Krackan Point. Krackan Point is for the mid-range offerings in the Ryzen AI 300 series. Recently I’ve been testing an AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 laptop that offers pretty impressive performance/value when considering it can be found brand new for as little as $449 USD with the HP OmniBook 5.
Earlier this year AMD announced the Krackan Point Ryzen AI 5 340 / Ryzen AI 7 350 SoCs to complement Strix Point and Strix Halo in the Ryzen AI 300 series. With the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 being looked at today it offers three Zen 5 cores and three Zen 5C cores for 6-cores / 12-threads for lower-cost notebooks while featuring RDNA3.5-based Radeon 840M integrated graphics with four compute units.
The AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 has a base clock of 2.0GHz, a max Zen 5C clock of 3.4GHz, and a maximum Zen 5 boost clock of 4.8GHz. The Ryzen AI 5 340 has a 16MB L3 cache and a default TDP of 28 Watts but configurable TDP range from 15 to 54 Watts. Krackan Point still supports AVX-512 like the entire Zen 5 line-up and other common features.
Being impressed by the Strix Point laptops and immensely loving Strix Halo for performance at the top-end, I was curious about Krackan Point for lower-end/budget laptops… During various laptop sales from major OEMs, AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 laptops can be found in the ~$450 range. Once in the US was a sale as low as $400 USD for a brand new Krackan Point laptop.
With not having received any AMD Krackan Point review unit and being curious about this AMD SoC for the lower-end space as well as the overall Linux support around AMD Krackan Point, I ended up buying an AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 laptop. I ended up buying an HP OmniBook 5 Laptop 16z-ag100 16-inch laptop for $449 USD. Or when not on “sale”, as of writing this article for example I pulled up the HP OmniBook 5 16z-ag100 product page and is at $520, which is still rather cheap for a 6-core / 12-thread brand new laptop.
The HP OmniBook 5 with AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 has been on sale for the $449 price point a few times this summer. There have also been other AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 laptops at the $450 price point too in recent weeks such as the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5.
The HP OmniBook 5 Laptop 16z-ag100 with the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 6-core/12-thread Zen 5/5C and Radeon 840M graphics was equipped with a 16-inch 1200p 300 nits panel, 16GB of LPDDR5-7500 memory, 512GB NVMe SSD, and shipped with Microsoft Windows 11 Home by default. Not a bad package for $450 after seeing the performance results if you are really looking for a cheap laptop.
For my initial Linux testing with the HP OmniBook 5 + Ryzen AI 5 340 I was using Ubuntu 25.04. A clean install of Ubuntu 25.04 worked fine on this Krackan Point laptop without any issues… All typical functionality was working fine, including the web camera and suspend/resume. ACPI Platform Profiles were also available for tuning the system and the Radeon 840M graphics were also working out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 25.04. A nice experience for a lower-cost laptop option. Now let’s continue to see how the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 performs under Linux.
