While AMD Ryzen AI 300 series laptops have begun appearing with Zen 5 CPU cores, to date the launched laptops have revolved around having either the integrated Radeon 890M RDNA3.5 graphics and/or NVIDIA GeForce discrete graphics. For those wanting a Linux-friendly laptop with Radeon discrete graphics for more gaming and GPU/compute potential, that still leaves the still very powerful Zen 4 laptop options. Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers recently launched the Sirius 16 Gen 2 as a nice workstation/gaming laptop featuring the Ryzen 7 8845HS with Radeon RX 7600M XT discrete graphics.

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On the plus side the Ryzen 7 8845HS / Zen 4 support on Linux is very mature at this point and runs without issues. TUXEDO OS continues to be based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS right now and works great with this laptop. Other modern Linux distributions work great as well from this hardware. With the Ryzen AI 300 series, you need to be running a very recent Linux kernel and Mesa, have the most up-to-date Linux firmware files, and potentially be aware of workarounds such as Panel Self Refresh (PSR) disabling and few other caveats pointed out in my prior Ryzen AI 300 series Linux testing.

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TUXEDO advertises the Sirius 16 Gen 2 as having up to 10 hours of battery life with minimum brightness, without WiFi and Bluetooth, and without the keyboard backlight while idling. This is accurate in those conditions but most will certainly run with WiFi enabled and a higher brightness level in which case it’s around a six hour battery life.

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When jumping straight to the geometric mean of the 147 benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8845HS does pretty well competing with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Zen 5 SoC found within the new ASUS Zenbook S16. The TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen 2 was around 10% faster than the Framework 16 laptop with Ryzen 7 7840HS SoC.

But the big difference is the Ryzen 7 8845HS was consuming much more power to be competing with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. The Ryzen 7 8845HS SOC was consuming 60 Watts on average during benchmarking with a recorded peak of 100 Watts in the Sirius 16 Gen 2. Meanwhile the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 was consuming 20 Watts on average with a recorded peak of 34 Watts. See the aforelinked benchmark result page for viewing all the individual benchmarks and power data in full.