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With recently picking up the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U and given the recent release of Fedora 39, I found it to be a nice time to provide a Lenovo ThinkPad retrospect of how the AMD Ryzen laptop Linux performance has evolved the past few generations.

In today’s article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 mobile series laptop performance has evolved going back to Zen 2 for various ThinkPad models while all testing was carried out on the brand new Fedora Workstation 39 Linux release.

Complementing the other Zen 4 Linux laptop benchmarking I’ve been doing and more on the way, in today’s article is a look at the Fedora 39 Linux performance across the Ryzen 7 4700U (Zen 2), Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U (Zen 3), Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U (Zen 3+), and Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (Zen 4) for these 8 core / 16 thread mobile CPUs of each generation and with AMD Radeon integrated graphics.

The comparison was limited by the laptops I had in my possession for freshly re-benchmarking.

This represents a three year span of AMD Ryzen / ThinkPad laptop releases since late 2020.

Fedora Workstation 39 was freshly installed on all of these laptops under test for a fresh look at how the AMD Ryzen Linux laptop performance has evolved the past several generations.

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Now if only the 680M and friends weren’t so unstable when decoding video content they would be perfect. But because of that I have to disable hardware video decoding because it fucks up my session with artefacts after some time. That or it simply freezes or crashes the computer. These are known issues for over a year I think. I think AMD isn’t as great as people seem to be saying after all. I may go with an Intel laptop next, especially with the new generation supposed to be competitive