AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 Linux Performance With The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6
When carrying out 50 OpenGL/Vulkan benchmarks, the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 within the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 was around 10% faster than the Ryzen 7 7840U. This was just enough uplift in the stock configuration on Ubuntu 25.04 to push the Radeon 880M graphics in the ThinkPad ahead of the Meteor Lake Xe and Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics on a geo mean basis.
Of all the laptops tested, the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 out-of-the-box during these integrated graphics benchmarks consumed the least amount of CPU/SoC power. The Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 was consuming 13.96 Watts on average compared to the Ryzen 7 7840U at 15.33 Watts or the Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake SoC also at a 15 Watt average. The AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point is more power efficient than RDNA3 while the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 also in the default balanced performance/power profile is more conservative than the other Strix Point laptops tested.
👁 Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop
Moving back to the CPU-focused benchmarks in this out-of-the-box testing on Ubuntu 25.04, see this result page for more than 200 benchmarks carried out on all of these laptops. When taking the geometric mean of that wide range of benchmarks across these different SoCs and laptops:
The CPU performance of the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 out-of-the-box with the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 was similar to the prior-gen Ryzen 7 7840U within the Acer Swift Edge 16. As mentioned the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 by default is running the SoC more conservatively in the default/balanced profile and even below the default TDP rating from AMD. A follow-up article will look at the impact of the performance and low-power ACPI Platform Profiles too.
With the conservative defaults of the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 25.04, the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 ended up consuming the least amount of power on average of all the hardware tested. On average the SoC was running at just 14 Watts with a peak of 30 Watts. In comparison the Ryzen 7 7840U had a 15.7 Watt average and the Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake average was up at 20 Watts with a peak of 37 Watts. The ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 AMD was delivering very great energy efficiency.
In turn the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 also ran the coolest of all the laptops tested. The CPU core temperature within the T14s G6 was 62 degrees on average, well below the 68 degree average of the Ryzen 7 7840U and much better than the 77 degree average within the ASUS Zenbook S14.
Again for those thinking about the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 and wanting to go through even more numbers can find all the raw data via this page. I'll also have up a few more follow-up articles in the coming days.
Besides the energy efficient performance, the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 has been running well with the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 41 and Fedora 42 beta and other modern Linux distributions for providing a nice mid-range Linux laptop experience.
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