Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop
When kicking things off with some Firefox browser benchmarks, it was visible right away that the Framework 13 AMD laptop was performing well. It was also outperforming the Acer Swift Edge 16 with the same Ryzen 7 7840U SoC and the ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 with similar Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U SoC.
When looking at the CPU power consumption, it became clear how the Framework laptop could be performing better than the Acer laptop with the same SoC: the Framework laptop was pulling around 14.6 Watts on average during this browser benchmark compared to the Acer Swift Edge 16 at 12.3 Watts or the ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 at 9.6 Watts...
It ultimately comes down to the laptop design with how the platform is configured and having appropriate TDP/power limits based on the design. On a power efficiency basis, the Framework laptop came slightly behind the Lenovo and Acer Zen 4 laptops tested.
The laptops were tested in their "balanced" ACPI Platform Profile mode. When tweaking the ACPI Platform Profile and other tunables is also the possibility to (slightly) adjust the power/performance preference if you prefer a cooler and longer battery life laptop or wanting to achieve maximum performance at all costs.
In more demanding workloads, the Framework 13 AMD laptop continued to pull ahead of the other tested laptops.
When compiling the Godot game engine, the Ryzen 7 7840U within the Framework laptop was pulling around 28 Watts compared to the Acer Swift Edge 16 having a 15 Watt average here or the ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 at 31 Watts. Again, all depending upon the laptop design.
The Framework 13 laptop with Ryzen 7 7840U could build the default Linux kernel in under two minutes.