Performance of zorin on amd ryzen 5500u

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Hey !!
Can anyone tell me how does zorin os perform on amd ryzen 5500u( Benchmarks would be nice to have😉).

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@FrenchPress is our resident AMD user on Linux. But from what she tells us, performance is excellent on her AMD system/systems.

Ohhhh you want benchmarks do you? Well, you better pay FrenchPress a cup of coffee and a donut, then maybe she will provide you a CPU-blowfish score in HARD INFO AKA System Profiler.

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My AMD is pre-Ryzen :sweat_smile:
FX8350 Black edition (8 core, 4.0 GHz) to be precise.
(It runs great with any Linux distro, but I am not a gamer.)

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Haa even I have an amd fx series processor, amd fx 6300 and It actually works too good with it. But I was a little confused about these new gen processors.

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Well I guess we can meet at the nearest MOD and have the doughnuts :joy:.

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Just upload your doughnuts to MegaSync.

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Now let's get serious anything about the processor performance?

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I do not have AMD Ryzen, so I tried a search:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=5500u-windows10-ubuntu

While that article examines Ubuntu 21.04, Zorin OS 16 uses the 21.04 kernel. It may be a more accurate comparison.

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Yeah!! Well that helped a bit thank you

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I am glad that we could finally make you happy. As you can see, not too many AMD Ryzen owners posting on our forum yet. But I made a thread to welcome them if they came over here.

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Well! Thanks for that.

I found a thread on which they say amd 5000 series has few problems with Ubuntu 20.04 . And zorin os 16 is built on Ubuntu 20.04 os I have to be a little careful then.

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At that time, Ubuntu 20.04 was using the 5.4 kernel. Zorin OS 16 is using 5.11 kernel currently.

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Zorin OS 16 PRO Screenfetch 5.11.37 Kernel

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Well, in my Yoga 530 I have a Ryzen 5 2500U with Vega 8. Can I help somehow? :slight_smile:

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I'm running Zorin OS 16 Core on a Ryzen Pro 5850U. Works fine for me, performance is quite reasonable (edit: though I haven't run any benchmarks so far). :slight_smile:

Only issue I've found so far is that there's some potential for improvement regarding CPU governance, i.e. sometimes I feel the fan is running unnecessarily based on the CPU operating at higher power levels than necessary for the tasks at hand. Probably nothing a bit of dabbling (or better CPU management in future releases - Ryzen 5000 is still rather new) won't solve. :muscle:

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Thank you for commenting! dude generally Ubuntu works too good with old cpu's but I was talking about newer cpu.
Thanks for commenting tho👍

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Ohhh... Well, but that doesn't mean that the problem was solved for sure, right? Man is there no one who uses new hardware?

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Man thanks for commenting I was waiting for a comment like yours!! Thank you

Tho even windows 11 faces problems with ryzen 5000 series and those are rather big problems. I am fine with little bit fan noise and battery usage from Ubuntu

Thanks !!!

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And can you please tell me how much watt hour is your battery? And much is your laptops battery life?

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/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full_design     =  51000 [mWh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full            =  52450 [mWh]

(it is sold as 51 Wh, so the additional 1450 mWh are probably supposed to be some kind of buffer for battery degradation)

Unfortunately I don't have much experience regarding battery life yet, as the device is rather new and I've been using it mostly on AC so far. All I can say for sure is that 4-5 hours of light usage (coding, browsing the net, editing documents etc.) is no problem.
Battery life definitely isn't terrible, though I don't have any direct comparison to the same (or a similar) device on Windows 10.

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