This week marks fifteen months since AMD Strix Point laptops began shipping. Back at the end of July 2024 the Linux performance and support was already in good shape while since then the Linux performance has only evolved even more to make these AMD Zen 5 laptops perform even better. Here is a fresh look at how the performance has evolved since launch day and the added gains when moving to the recently released Ubuntu 25.10 and some performance advantages too if moving to the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel.
Complementing the prior launch day (using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) and then one year later comparisons of AMD Strix Point (Ubuntu 25.04), today’s benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the same ASUS Zenbook S16 laptop powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 when installing the recently released Ubuntu 25.10 plus taking things even further in going from Linux 6.17 stable to the current in-development Linux 6.18 kernel.
The same ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA was used for all the testing with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32GB of LPDDR5-7500 memory, Radeon 890M integrated graphics, and Micron 1TB MTFDKBA1T0QFM NVMe SSD storage. Any reported hardware differences on the (automated) system table just come down to how the information was exposed on the different kernels / Ubuntu releases.
From there it was off to the races in benchmarking to see how the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series has evolved over the past 15 months on Linux.
