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

Overall the performance was largely flat when looking across 144 benchmarks tested across these four versions of the Linux kernel for their out-of-the-box performance. It largely came down to the lighter workloads where Linux 6.5+ could yield better performance with AMD P-State EPP being the default over ACPI CPUFreq in an out-of-the-box configuration. Web browser performance in both Firefox/Chrome, some lightweight games, and other similar areas were benefiting for better out-of-the-box performance and/or power efficiency on Linux. The only workload that was consistently regressing on Linux 6.5+ was OpenVINO.

When looking at the CPU peak frequency observed across running all 144 benchmarks, with Linux 6.5+ is a clear difference in the out-of-the-box frequency behavior of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

Overall the Z1 Extreme SoC power consumption was largely unchanged at a macro level but when it came to the particular lightly threaded test workloads is where there was often a difference.

For the ASUS ROG Ally running Linux 6.5+ out-of-the-box didn't make much of a difference overall on the CPU core temperature.

That's my initial look at the ASUS ROG Ally / Ryzen Z1 Extreme with Linux 6.5 and the very early Linux 6.6 Git state. Stay tuned for more Linux 6.5 and 6.6 Git testing on additional systems over the next week or two.