Stenosis,
Which Ryzen AI 300 do you have? How much memory? Which operating system?
Hey Harry, the system looks like this:
System: AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series - Ryzen™ AI 5 340
Memory: DDR5-5600 - 32GB (1 x 32GB)
VRAM is set to 16GB
OS: Arch Linux
Kernel version: 6.14.6-1
Mesa version: 1:25.0.5-1
Can it really be that the AI 5 340 is worse in graphics performance than the 7040? 
I can’t say about the 340 vs. the 7040. I purchased a beefier 370, anticipating running Flight Simulator 2024 and other stuff.
Single channel memory is really not helping graphics performance here.
Yes, the 340 is worse than both the 7640u and the 7840u in most aspects, especially the gpu. It has slightly newer gpu units but way fewer of them (4 vs the 8/12 the 7640u/7840u got). It does have a much stronger mpu though for whatever that is worth.
It also has a bunch of power saving features that may make video playback more efficient under linux once implemented and the cores should be somewhat more efficient but but that seems to need a bit more time in the oven software wise.
Given you can currently get a 7640U or ultra 5 mainboard for less than the 340 and a 7840u one for slightly more it seems like a really weird thing to sell but it may have helped the “starting at” price for the new models.
Graphics wise the 350 is in the ballpark of the 7640u and the 370 is a bit better than the 7840u, though not as much as having one and a half 340s worth of extra gpu cores would make you think.
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FWIW, I installed Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on my pre-built 370.
When it starts it cautions,
I’ve yet to notice latency or other issues.
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The 370 and 340 are much different beasts, I would expect the 370 to be able to “run” pretty much anything.
Great! Can you please share how it is running?
I can’t give you numbers. I’ve had nothing I’d call a glitch with the 370. I just installed the latest W11 driver bundle dated April 25, 2025. It updated the RZ717 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth drivers, the rest unchanged. Too soon to report on this.
I’ve not yet gone deep with Flight Simulator 2024 so nothing more to say there. I run Core Temp which tells me the CPU reached 70 degrees C.
The battery usually charges to the 80% limit I set. When the laptop is powered off and the charger plugged in, I saw a few times it charged beyond that limit. When the laptop is running W11 and power is plugged in (mostly into port 1 but I’ve used ports 2 and 3) charging is consistently limited to 80%.
There’s a USB-C expansion card in port 3 and USB-A expansion card in port 4. Occasionally when there’s a USB-C memory stick in port 3 and a USB-A memory stick in port 4, the laptop drops then regains the connection to port 4. I’ve witnessed twice dropped connections on port 4 when no memory stick in port 3.
Also, I’ve witnessed changes in the designated drive letters of memory sticks in ports 3 and 4.
This is my experience of two weeks with this laptop.
Howd it go? Just ordered one that Im planning on installing arch on, I see the wiki page lists some of the hardware as untested…
The installation went smoothly. The listed untested components, such as the audio, touchpad, keyboard, and ambient light sensor seemed to work just fine out of the box. I didn’t use the TPM.