AMD Radeon 8050S "Strix Halo" Linux Graphics Performance
First up is the higher-end Strix Halo, Strix Point, and Xe2 Lunar Lake tests with more interesting Linux gaming tests followed by the larger comparison with more lax games/graphics to allow for the laptop iGPU comparison going back further.
The Radeon 8050S Graphics with the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 have 80% the graphics cores as the Radeon 8060S and when starting things off with Counter-Strike 2, it hit right inline with expectations. The out-of-the-box performance was at 82% that of the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 HP ZBook Ultra G1a or if opting for the "performance" mode up to 85% the performance of that flagship model. In any case even at 80%+ the performance of the Radeon 8060S, the Strix Halo performance at large was far better than the Radeon 890M graphics with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or the Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics with the Core Ultra 7 256V.
With the BATMAN game running on Linux under Steam Play, the Radeon 8050S Graphics were at 85~88% the performance of the flagship Radeon 8060S Strix Halo graphics. And far beyond the performance found with the Strix Point or Lunar Lake graphics on Linux.
The performance-per-Watt was competitive too and in the low-power platform profile had even yielded the best power efficiency while still delivering much better raw performance than Strix Point or Lunar Lake.
The HITMAN game as another title running on Linux under Steam Play saw the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 configuration at just under 80% the performance of the Ryzen AI Max PRO 395 but still around 2.5x the performance of what's available with Intel Lunar Lake or AMD Strix Point.