AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 "Krackan Point" Offers Outstanding Value In Sub-$500 Laptops
With multi-threaded workloads like Blender, the Ryzen AI 5 340 in the HP OmniBook 5 was just faintly slower than the ThinkPad T14s Gen6 with the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 due to its conservative defaults. When running the OmniBook 5 with the performance profile, it surpassed the ThinkPad T14s Gen6. It was also not too much slower than the popular Ryzen 7 7840U SoC.
For those still on old laptops from say Intel Tigerlake and older, the Ryzen AI 5 340 was proving to be competitive for its price point and delivering great power efficiency too just behind the other Strix Point laptops.
In other creator workloads the HP OmniBook 5 with Ryzen AI 5 340 was performing similar to the 8-core Ryzen 7 7840U (Zen 4) and still proving to be a nice affordable upgrade if you are on Intel Tiger Lake or older or even AMD Ryzen 7 5850U and older. The power efficiency of Krackan Point was in good shape and not too far behind the higher-tier Strix Point SoCs.
For multi-threadedcreator workloads, the Ryzen AI 5 340 in the HP OmniBook 5 was typically able to come out slightly ahead of the Ryzen 7 7840U performance when in the performance profile mode. In these multi-threaded workloads the AMD laptops were easily delivering far superior performance-per-Watt to the Intel laptops tested.