Earlier this month we looked at the Linux laptop performance of AMD's Krackan Point using the [1]Ryzen AI 5 340 within a HP OmniBook 5 that can be found for as low as ~$450 during sales. For six Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics, Krackan Point worked well as a budget Linux laptop option. For those wondering how the Linux vs. Windows 11 performance compares for the budget HP OmniBook, here are some benchmarks.

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Prior to wiping the Microsoft Windows 11 Home installation as shipped by HP on the OmniBook 5, I ran some benchmarks of that default Windows 11 install with all stable updates as of the end of July. That was followed by carrying out a clean install of the current Ubuntu 25.04 release and testing it out-of-the-box with the Linux 6.14 kernel, Mesa 25.0 graphics drivers, and other default packages for that current Ubuntu Linux release.

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The HP OmniBook 5 Laptop 16z-ag100 8DF4 as used for testing can be found in the US in the ~$450 range brand new during HP sales. This laptop was equipped with the 6-core Krackan Point AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 with Radeon 840M Graphics, 16GB of LPDDR5-7500 memory, 1200p display, and 512GB Western Digital SN5000S SDEPNSJ-512G-1006 SSD.

In prior months we have looked at the [4]Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for AMD Strix Halo and other high-end hardware while the benchmarks today are for reference purposes at the opposite end of the spectrum with the budget-minded Krackan Point.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-5-340

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=amd-krackan-point-windows-linux&image=krackan_point_linux_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=amd-krackan-point-windows-linux&image=krackan_point_windows_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-max-390-windows-linux