Benchmarking AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Linux Performance With A $450 Lenovo Laptop

For this initial benchmarking of the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U on Linux I compared it to the following laptops, all freshly re-tested using Ubuntu 21.04 with Linux 5.11 + Mesa 21.0.1 + GCC 10.3.

Core i7 8565U - An older Dell XPS with Core i7 8565U Whiskey Lake processor and Gen9 Intel graphics, SK Hynix 256GB NVMe SSD, and 16GB of RAM.

Core i7 1065G7 - The Dell XPS Ice Lake laptop with Gen11 Iris Plus G7 graphics, Toshiba 512GB NVMe SSD, and 16GB of RAM.

Core i7 1165G7 - The latest Dell XPS Tiger Lake i7-1165G7 with Gen12 Xe Graphics, 16GB of RAM, Kioxia 256GB NVMe SSD, and 16GB of RAM.

Core i7 9750H - Clevo Notebook P95_96_97Ex Rx with Core i7 9750H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics, 1TB Samsung NVMe SSD, and 32GB of RAM.

Ryzen 5 4500U - A Lenovo IdeaPad with Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon graphics, 256GB SK Hynix NVMe SSD, and 16GB of RAM.

Ryzen 5 5500U - The laptop under focus today with the new Lenovo IdeaPad with Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon graphics, 256GB Samsung NVMe SSD, and 8GB (2 x 4GB) RAM.

These were recent generation laptops I had available/access to for testing at the moment. All of the laptops/CPUs were freshly (re)tested on the same Ubuntu 21.04 software stack.

This is just the first of several AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Linux benchmarking articles to come on Phoronix with this laptop as well as still working on getting my hands on a higher tier laptop featuring a Zen 3 laptop processor.