AMD Krackan Point Sub-$500 Laptop Linux Performance Improves By ~8% In Just Six Months
When it came to the integrated Radeon 840M graphics with the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340, there were some nice performance advantages too. From OpenGL and Vulkan graphics to Vulkan compute, the Radeon 840M performance has evolved nicely on the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack.
Long story short, when running 150 benchmarks on this HP OmniBook 5 with AMD Ryzen AI 5 340, the performance is 5% faster on a geo mean basis. Considering that is just over the span of six months since testing with Ubuntu 25.04 when originally purchasing this sub-$500 laptop, the 8% improvement is rather nice to see. AMD Krackan Point with the Ryzen AI 5 340 inside the HP OmniBook 5 was exciting when snagging it for $449 USD and enjoying decent performance out of the six Zen 5 cores complete with AVX-512, now with the latest Linux software updates it's even a better value if you are still able to find this laptop for around that price point. AMD Krackan Point continues looking very good for value laptops.
Back in August on this AMD Krackan Point laptop I did run some Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu benchmarks. Back then Ubuntu Linux was alreasy faster than Windows 11. As I haven't heard about any big Windows 11 performance optimizations in the past six months, it's likely the Linux lead now is just even greater than before over Windows 11 on Krackan Point.
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