AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 "Krackan Point" Offers Outstanding Value In Sub-$500 Laptops
👁 HP OmniBook 5 with AMD Krackan Point
For a look at the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 performance under Linux using the HP OmniBook 5 16z-ag100 laptop, I compared it to the other laptops I've been testing this summer all freshly (re)tested on Ubuntu 25.04 with Linux 6.14. The wide assortment of laptops that were available for (re)testing this summer included:
- Core i5 1334U - Framework 12
- Core i7 1065G7 - Dell XPS 7390
- Core i7 1165G7 - Dell XPS 9310
- Core i7 1185G7 - Dell XPS 9310
- Core i7 1280P - MSI Prestige 14Evo
- Core i7 8550U - Dell XPS 9370
- Core i7 8565U - Dell XPS 9380
- Core Ultra 7 155H - Acer Swift Go 14
- Core Ultra 7 256V - ASUS Zenbook S14
- Core Ultra 7 258V - X1 Carbon G13
- Ryzen 7 4700U - Lenovo IdeaPad 5
- Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework 16
- Ryzen 7 7840U - Acer Swift Edge 16
- Ryzen 7 7840U - Framework 13
- Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - ThinkPad T14s G2a
- Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - ThinkPad X13 G3
- Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U - ThinkPad P14s G4
- Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS ROG Strix G513QY
- Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 - ThinkPad T14s G6
- Ryzen AI 9 365 - ASUS Zenbook S16
- Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S16
- Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - Framework 13
- Ryzen AI Max 390 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a
- Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a
- Ryzen AI 5 340 - HP OmniBook 5
- Ryzen AI 5 340 - HP OmniBook 5 - Perf
👁 HP OmniBook 5 featuring AMD Ryzen AI 5 340
Quite a wide selection of laptops all cleanly tested on Ubuntu 25.04. With the HP OmniBook 5 I tested it out-of-the-box like the others plus the additional "Perf" run when setting the platform profile to the "performance" mode rather than the default balanced mode. That was done for seeing how much more performance/power could be squeezed out of this sub-$500 laptop for those that may be trying to maximize their performance/investment out of this Krackan Point laptop.
The CPU power consumption was monitored for each test and a wide assortment of different GPU and iGPU workloads carried out for seeing how the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 stacks up against the higher-end laptops and how this 6-core laptop compares to prior generation laptops on Ubuntu Linux.