New laptop!

Hi all.
I'm sorry, that I have been inactive for a while, I will try to be more productive in the time to come.
My excuse is like most others, I have been busy with a lot of stuff.

But the main thing is, that I've gotten my new laptop.

Ryzen 2700U laptop

I got this bad boy some days ago, and it is a beast.

• CPU: Ryzen 7 2700U 2.2 GHz
• GPU: Radeon Vega 8
• Screen: 13,3" IPS 1080p
• RAM: 8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
• Storage: 512 GB M.2 SSD
• Wifi: RTL8821CE AC
• Bluetooth: 4.1
• OS: Windows 10 Home

It's a great machine and one of the first things I did, was shrinking the Windows drive, to ake room for Manjaro Linux.

So right now it's dual booting, and there is a few reasons for that. Mainly that this is a work laptop, so I have to run Windows to test the software we need in the environment we need it.

In the short time I had it I quickly found out that I had to use Linux kernel 4.15 or above to even boot into graphical userspace.

I also noticed that the laptop is quite unstable. It sometimes freezes without warning and I have to hard-reset it. Has so far not happened in Windows.

I also found out that the Wifi driver is not in the kernel, I need to install an AUR package for it each time.

Plus I found out that the bluetooth adapter does not show up at all in Linux.

It all works fine in Windows though.

Benchmarking

I benchmarked this new laptop and compared it to the benchmarks I did on my old laptop.

PS: I did not figure out how to do a batch-benchmark before it was to late, so they are all seperated.

PPS: The Xonotic benchmark for the Sony contains all resolutions and all qualities, to compare with.

Here's the results:

Sony Vaio Benchmarks

The following benchmarks have been run on Sony Vaio:

• build-linux-kernel (CPU)
• glibc-bench (CPU)
• xonotic (GPU)
• glmark2 (GPU)

Results:

Benchmark	Result	Good/Bad
build-linux-kernel	https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1803052-FO-BUILDLINU75	Okay
glibc-bench	https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1803053-FO-GLIBCBENC79	Okay
xonotic	https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1803054-FO-XONOTICAL96	Bad
glmark2	https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1803051-FO-GLMARK2AL83	Bad

Lenovo Ryzen 2700U Benchmarks

The following bechmarks have been run on Lenovo:

• build-linux-kernel (CPU)
• glibc-bench (CPU)
• xonotic (GPU)
• glmark2 (GPU)

Results:

Benchmark	Result	Good/Bad
build-linux-kernel	https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1803101-FO-RYZEN270023	Good
glibc-bench	https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1803103-FO-RYZEN270006	Good
xonotic	https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1803101-FO-RYZEN270084	Good
glmark2	https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1803106-FO-RYZEN270059	Good

Conlclusion:

It seems the new laptop is about twice as good as the old one.

I would be running Linux on this machine most of the time, if it was stable enough, but it's not with the random freezing.
I will be using the Linux OS when possible for light volunteer work etc, since that seems to work fairly well.

New Ryzen for the desktop soon?

As some of you may know, I'm saving up to buy the new Ryzen 7 Zen+ for my desktop when it launches in April.

So I will hopefully have another benchmark setup for you then (maybe even a batch one, if i find out how to do that properly).

The goal is to get as most free drivers on the machine as possible, but I can't afford an AMD GPU right now anyway, so I have to stay with my GTX 1060 with nonfree drivers.