AMD Radeon 8050S "Strix Halo" Linux Graphics Performance
For those with OpenGL workloads, the demanding Unigine Superposition benchmark showed the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 with Radeon 8050S being around the 80% mark of the Ryzen AI Max PRO 395. Power efficiency was in good standing too and in the low-power platform profile allowed a nice leg-up in efficiency.
The Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 at the defaults tended to have better performance-per-Watt than the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 390 but still better off than Lunar Lake and Strix Point.
For those not concerned about getting the best iGPU frame-rates or even gaming little to none but still wanting a very competent iGPU for light workloads and driving multiple or large resolution displays, the Radeon 8050S is a very nice fit. The Radeon 8050S performance was far ahead of what's available with the Radeon 890M or Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics.
For the diverse range of benchmarks, the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 was at 82% the performance of the Ryzen AI Max PRO 395 with the Radeon 8060S flagship Strix Halo graphics. Right inline given the 32 vs. 40 graphics core difference. Switching to the performance profile on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a allowed for about 2% better performance.
The Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 was at a 55 Watt average and a 71 Watt peak, roughly inline with the Ryzen AI Max PRO 395.
The Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 power consumption was on average 1.96x that of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 but delivering 2.6xthe performance. Similarly, the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 power consumption was about 3.2x that of the Core Ultra 7 256V but with 3.6x the performance.
For those wanting to increase the power efficiency, the low-power platform profile led to 72% the power use on average but with 83% the performance of the out-of-the-box (balanced) platform profile.
Let's widen this comparison now to even more laptops with integrated graphics...