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21-Way Intel Core / AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop Comparison On Ubuntu 25.04

As part of fresh re-testing of existing laptops on-hand given the recent release of Ubuntu 25.04 and then also recent Linux reviews of some interesting models like the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Strix Point and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition, I have been running a lot of Linux laptop benchmarks the past few weeks.

I ended up taking things a bit further after those reviews and have now extended it to a 21-way laptop comparison of AMD Ryzen and Intel Core SoCs from the past few generations in looking at their performance on Ubuntu 25.04 across more than 200 benchmarks. Today's article is a 21-way look at various Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops of the past few years all freshly (re)tested under Ubuntu 25.04 with the Linux 6.14 kernel, Mesa 25.0 graphics drivers, GCC 14, and other up-to-date open-source software components shipped by Ubuntu 25.04 last month. Page 1 - IntroductionPage 2 - Web Browser BenchmarksPage 3 - Darktable, RawTherapee, OpenSCAD, GNU Octave MATLABPage 4 - Blender, LuxCore, V-RAYPage 5 - INDIGO, OSPRay, Embree, OIDn Creator WorkloadsPage 6 - Code Compilation PerformancePage 7 - Video EncodingPage 8 - AI BenchmarksPage 9 - Java, WebP, 7-Zip, Other WorkloadsPage 10 - Server Workloads, Python, Git, PHP ScriptingPage 11 - NAMD, Gromacs, OpenRadioss, HPC BenchmarksPage 12 - iGPU Graphics PerformancePage 13 - iGPU Graphics PerformancePage 14 - AMD/Intel Linux Laptop Performance

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