SMT Proves Very Advantageous For AMD Ryzen AI MAX Strix Halo Performance
Of course, to effectively leverage SMT your application needs to be able to leverage 16+ threads. If your workloads tend not to be too well optimized, SMT isn't of much use but at least its power impact is minimal.
OpenMP-threaded applications like John The Ripper were showing the clear benefits of SMT on the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ laptop.
By now you likely see the picture that SMT is still very much effective on the AMD side and even with the 16-core Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 was able to deliver even better performance and without any significant power consumption difference.