AMD Krackan Point Sub-$500 Laptop Linux Performance Improves By ~8% In Just Six Months
Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 23 December 2025 at 10:30 AM EST. Page 3 of 10. 11 Comments.
Nearly universal across the many creator workloads run was finding noticeably better performance with this latest Linux software stack on this HP OmniBook 5 powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340.
The AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 impressed me during the summer for the decent performance out of this 6-core AVX-512 processor in a sub-$500 laptop while now at the end of the year there are some nice gains to showcase.