AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance
Simply put, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 delivers incredible performance potential that need it on the go. For those running heavy workloads from your laptop for portability, convenience, travel, or similar purposes, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 opens a whole new realm of performance while still delivering good power efficiency.
When running nearly 200 benchmarks across all of these laptops with a range of different disciplines and a mix of single/multi core scalability, on average the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 was 1.42x the performance of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point". Or a whopping 1.88x the performance of Intel Lunar Lake. But that's just the geo mean. If really diving into AI, code compilation, scientific computing, and other creator workloads and more the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 was commonly at 2x the performance or more of the high-end Strix Point SoCs.
When looking at the CPU power consumption over all of the workloads tested, the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a was 48 Watts on average and a peak of 72 Watts. Not bad considering the performance out of this 16-core / 32-thread Strix Halo SoC and that also being even lower than the older Ryzen 9 5900HX.
If you need a lot of compute power in laptop form, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ (PRO) 395 can deliver unbeatable performance for Linux laptops in 2025. The HP ZBook ltra G1a has been working out well on the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and I'll have more comments specifically about this Strix Halo laptop in its own review in the coming weeks on Phoronix. Thanks to HP for supplying the ZBook Ultra G1a for Linux testing at Phoronix. Other Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux benchmarks such as Windows vs. Linux and other interesting angles will be shared in additional articles coming up on Phoronix.
The only real downside to the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 / HP ZBook Ultra 14 G1a is the very hefty price tag... And on a lighter note, the processor name is rather a mouthful.
And this has all been just about the CPU performance... See the AMD Radeon 8060S Linux benchmarks for the very beefy iGPU results atop AMD's open-source driver stack.
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