AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 16 May 2025 at 06:40 AM EDT. Page 7 of 9. 45 Comments.
Across a variety of workloads this AMD 16-core Zen 5 laptop SoC was rocking on Linux.
ASTC texture compression was another scenario with a range of benchmark intensity where as the workloads became more grueling, Ubuntu 25.04 became much more compelling than Windows 11 either due to the kernel scheduler behavior or other differences.