How time flies… This week already marks one year since the debut of AMD’s Zen 5 Strix Point laptop processors with the likes of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 that also rolled out the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics. In marking one year that Strix Point laptops have been available, here is a performance benchmarking redux of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with the ASUS Zenbook S16 for looking at how the Linux performance at launch-day compares to a very leading-edge Linux software stack now one year later.
AMD Strix Point worked well at launch with our Linux testing using the Ryzen AI 9 365 and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with the ASUS Zenbook S16. Since then there has been a lot more optimization work around RDNA3/RDNA3.5 graphics within Mesa, continued refinements to the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver, and various other Linux kernel optimizations and other software ecosystem enhancements.
One year ago for the launch day review testing of Strix Point I was using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the Linux 6.10 kernel, Mesa 24.3-devel graphics drivers, and other up-to-date software components for the time.
Now for the fresh benchmarks “One Year ” is Ubuntu 25.04 while upgrading to the latest Linux 6.16 Git kernel as well as Mesa 25.3-devel graphics drivers from the Mesa ACO PPA. This provides a very fresh and up-to-date look at the AMD Strix Point performance on Linux for H2’2025.
The same exact ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA_UM5606WA laptop was used for testing then and now with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (12 core / 24 threads), 32GB of LPDDR5-7500 memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and the integrated Radeon 890M graphics.
Let’s continue on with this look at how AMD Strix Point is looking on Linux one year after these first AMD Zen 5 laptops began shipping.
