I was looking for a new Laptop for my personal use. I shortlisted Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 with AMD’s Ryzen 9 AI 365. Then I was searching around and found they released a new lineup of Ryzen 9000 series just a month after the AI 300 series’s launch.

I am confused here. So confused that I am debating whether to buy a processor with AI jargon in its name.

Will there be good Linux support for this NPU enabled laptops or should I go ahead and buy a ThinkPad P14s with Ryzen 8840HS inside. Both are about similar in price and only thing that keeps me from buying its 60Hz panel (No OLED 120Hz display where I live).

I use Gnome on EndeavourOS.

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Uh no, they have like 4 or 5 different naming schemes in currently relevant CPUs. The one you explained isn’t even the most current one and most of them aren’t even unambiguous.

    For someone not intimately familiar with AMD’s line-up, the only good way to figure out the CPU core IP used in any given processor is to look it up for that specific processor.

    Nerds like you and I have followed it over the years and can immediately tell that a 5300g is zen2 while the 5400g is clearly zen3 and that Ryzen AI 300 or whatever awful name they thought of is Zen5 but by the time someone unfamiliar followed a flow chart to figure that out, they might as well look up the specific CPU.