AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: 100+ Benchmarks Validate Zen 5's Captivating Power Efficiency & Performance
One of the most requested areas always in the desktop/laptop performance comparisons by readers is around code compilation performance... With all of our developer readers, it's a much sought after area for those doing a lot of code development from their laptops or even just for those running a source-based Linux distribution like Arch or Gentoo. In the case of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with four Zen 5 cores and eight Zen 5C cores, it was only slightly faster than the Ryzen 7 7840HS at compiling the Linux kernel...
But where the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 code compilation performance became very fascinating is looking at the CPU power consumption. The Ryzen 7 7840HS was consuming around 41.7 Watts while compiling the kernel and the Ryzen 7 7840U consuming around 28 Watts... Meanwhile the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 as the fastest at compiling the Linux kernel was consuming only 24 Watts with a peak of 33 Watts! Huge improvement to the power efficiency and also translates to better thermals and the like. The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake meanwhile was consuming 34 Watts on average while being much slower than the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 at compiling the kernel.
For other code compilation tasks the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 was delivering similar build speeds to the Ryzen 7 7840HS but doing so with much less power.
Besides being promising for developers doing a lot of code compilation on their laptops, these results get me very excited for Zen 5 on the desktop with the Ryzen 9000 series and ahead with EPYC Turin server processors.