Linux 6.5+ Bringing Some Performance/Efficiency Improvements For The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme / ASUS ROG Ally

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 8 September 2023 at 11:21 AM EDT. Page 3 of 6. 3 Comments.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Speedometer, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.5.1 was the fastest.

One of the areas commonly seeing better performance on Linux 6.5+ with the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme was the web browser benchmarks within both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

In some cases though the slightly better performance came at the cost of slightly higher CPU power use, in which case the performance-per-Watt was comparable to prior kernels.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Speedometer, Browser: Google Chrome. Linux 6.5.1 was the fastest.

It was a similar situation in both Chrome and Firefox on Linux.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Jetstream 2, Browser: Google Chrome. Linux 6.5.1 was the fastest.

JetStream 2 in Chrome was slightly faster on Linux 6.5+ for this AMD Ryzen powered handheld.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: PSPDFKit WASM, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.6 2 Sep was the fastest.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: PSPDFKit WASM, Browser: Google Chrome. Linux 6.5.1 was the fastest.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.3.13 was the fastest.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Google Chrome. Linux 6.5.1 was the fastest.

In cases like WebAssembly and Kraken there were also out-of-the-box slightly better performance on Linux 6.5+ while maintaining comparable CPU power use.

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