AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo
Across a variety of heavy OpenGL and Vulkan graphics workloads there is phenomenal performance potential out of the Radeon 8060S with Strix Halo SoCs.
Across all of the additional benchmarks between Strix Halo, Strix Point, and Lunar Lake there was incredible iGPU performance delivered by the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with the HP ZBook Ultra G1a. In this set of tests more than 3x the performance over the Strix Halo on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and 4.3x the performance of the Xe2 integrated graphics on Lunar Lake. Pretty darn impressive.
I hope to see a whole lot more out of the Radeon 8060S graphics in desktops and other devices moving forward. The great performance was all the more exciting when considering the fully open-source and upstream AMD Radeon graphics driver support for Linux. Installing Ubuntu 25.04 right now on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a or similar Strix Halo laptops is ready to go from the OpenGL and Vulkan driver perspective.
Coming up for follow-up articles will be looking at the Strix Halo iGPU performance for ROCm/compute workloads as well as exploring the Windows vs. Linux performance. In the meantime if you haven't done so already, check out the impressive Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux CPU performance. Thanks to HP for supplying the ZBook Ultra G1a for Linux review at Phoronix.
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