Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Can Work Well As A Solid Linux Laptop
Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 24 April 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT. Page 6 of 14. 28 Comments.
In some imaging applications like Darktable and RawTherapee that aren't too threaded there was nice performance out of the 8-core Core Ultra 7 258V.
In programs like OpenSCAD for open-source CAD and GNU Octave as a MATLAB alternative there was nice performance out of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition.
But when it comes to demanding multi-threaded creator workloads is where the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series laptops easily dominate with higher core counts and SMT.
The AMD Zen 5 laptops were leading in Blender for both raw performance and performance-per-Watt.
