System76 Pangolin Makes For A Nice All-AMD Linux Laptop

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 17 May 2023 at 11:05 AM EDT. Page 4 of 7. 28 Comments.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: bcrypt. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: Blowfish. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: MD5. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Crown. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 12, Input: Bosphorus 4K. MSI MS-14C6 - Intel Core i7 1280P was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 12, Input: Bosphorus 1080p. MSI MS-14C6 - Intel Core i7 1280P was the fastest.
uvg266 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Very Fast. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.
uvg266 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Ultra Fast. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.

Across a wide range of workloads, the System76 Pangolin laptop was delivering great out-of-the-box performance compared to other recent laptops also running Pop!_OS 22.04. The System76 Pangolin was outperforming the Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen3 with Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U that by default is better tuned for power efficiency.

VP9 libvpx Encoding benchmark with settings of Speed: Speed 5, Input: Bosphorus 4K. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.
VP9 libvpx Encoding benchmark with settings of Speed: Speed 5, Input: Bosphorus 1080p. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.
VVenC benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p, Video Preset: Faster. System76 Pangolin - AMD 6800U was the fastest.

With 8 cores / 16 threads, the System76 Pangolin offers a lot of performance potential whether you are using your laptop for video transcoding/encoding, code compilation, or other compute intensive tasks.


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