AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme: Windows vs. Linux CPU Performance

And now the geometric mean of all the benchmarks carried out of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme under Windows 11 and Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu 23.04 had a narrow advantage over Windows 11 when using the default "balanced" ACPI Platform profile. When switching to the "performance" ACPI platform profile, there was around a 29% boost to the range of CPU benchmarks carried out for this article. That balanced to performance profile boost was much greater than the 5% boost found under Windows 11 with the ASUS "Turbo" mode. Or best vs. best showed Ubuntu 23.04 delivering 40% better CPU performance overall than Windows 11 for this range of diverse CPU benchmarks on the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

While switching from balanced to performance boosted performance by 29% for the geo mean, the CPU SoC power consumption as measured by the PowerCap interfaces for this range of testing showed the average power draw going up by 76%. The peak power consumption more than doubled to 54 Watts, which is well above the advertised 9 to 30 Watt range of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

The Ryzen Z1 Extreme in the ASUS ROG Ally obviously was much warmer in that "performance" ACPI Platform Profile mode. The average SoC core temperature was 57 degrees in the balanced mode or up to 75 degrees with the performance profile while recording a peak of 95 Watts.

The ROG Ally's CPU fan was also spinning much faster to deal with the heat.

Anyhow, that's the latest data from the ASUS ROG Ally / AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme for those curious about this new SoC. The CPU performance was in good shape on Linux and faster than Windows 11, especially when leveraging the "performance" ACPI Platform Profile. With the Zen 4 cores and RDNA3 graphics, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC is quite exciting in general. The next article comparing the Z1 Extreme performance to Van Gogh in the Steam Deck and other hardware should be quite interesting. It will be fun to see where else the Ryzen Z1 Extreme may end up in the months ahead.