I am going to buy a ThinkPad X13 and I want to know if the Intel version (i7-1165G7 and Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 Tiger Lake) or the AMD version(Zen 3 and Vega 8 Renoir) is more suitable for me, does anyone have a test?
Yes I know maybe much of you are using very old computers running Linux so I wonder if this question is good here.
I want to know mainly about kernel and graphics card support. Which one supports better? video-linux has some freezes on my Intel UHD-620 maybe same with these sites:
I’m not sure if this is helpful but you could lookup the specific hardware you have on https://linux-hardware.org/?view=trends and from that point you know how well the hardware is supported in the kernel and if there are issues. I assume that if consumer hardware runs on one flavor the probability is high that it works on another.
I’m using a yoga14s laptop with Ryzen R7 5800H and Vega8 Renoir, and Manjaro runs smooth on my laptop.
The only hardware problem is that there will be a ‘Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0’ from systemd when booting. However that is because it uses amdgpu_b10 instead, so this ‘problem’ doesn’t really affect anything.
(BTW all the ThinkPad X13s with Ryzen CPU I can find from jd.com are the older ZEN2 models. Is Lenovo about to update that model?
I would be interested in this as well. I have a new System 76 Darter Pro with the latest and greatest chipset. I would suspect that I need a 5.14 Kernel or even the 5.15 since I would not be sure that the 5.10 Kernel would support Xe Graphics.
I have the same CPU and GPU (Iris Xe) and Manjaro works smoothly and without issue, for the most part. Good temperatures, intelligent fans and dynamic CPU performance governor (intel_pstate).
However, when resuming from suspend, there’s a chance that the system will appear unresponsive for several seconds. Sometimes it resume instantly, and other times I have to wait several seconds. This might be a KDE/Plasma issue, not specific to my hardware or Linux itself.
EDIT: Just noticed you already acquired the laptop? How has it been for you with KDE? Do you notice the same “delay” when resuming from suspend with KDE?
Huh, I noticed that too. I thought it was just the new Pamac version, but I don’t notice the same keyboard delay on a slower and older system (with an Nvidia GPU).