How do I find out if the cpu is supported?

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I’m looking at buying a new laptop, an Alienware m16 R2, with an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with an NVIDIA 4060.

How do I find out if the cpu is supported by the 6.4.0-150600.23.38 kernel (the leap 15.6 kernel)? \

Is there a list of supported cpus?

Or will I need to switch to slowroll/tumbleweed?

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For tests you can use Live ISO:

https://download.opensuse.org/download/distribution/openSUSE-stable/live/

With Leap you can use packaged new kernel and new Mesa 3D.

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Can’t! I have not yet bought the laptop.

I’m still trying to decide between the ultra core 9 and the i9-13900HX.

I know the i9-13900HX works but what about the ultra core 9?

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@elfroggio:

This Phoronix test from December 2024: <https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arrowlake-windows-linux>

Across the span of 92 benchmarks carried out, Ubuntu 24.10 was about 6% faster than Windows 11 24H2 for this out-of-the-box / default comparison. There was little benefit to the performance itself from switching out the Linux 6.11 default kernel on Ubuntu 24.10 to using Linux 6.12 LTS stable or Linux 6.13 Git, but the newer kernels can provide some features and hardware support such as if you’ll also be going for Intel Arc B-Series graphics, for example. It was surprising to see the Intel P-State performance governor providing little help for the Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the default powersave governor. Typically the performance governor allows for more headroom but wasn’t the case here with the Core Ultra 9 285K and ASUS motherboard.

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Intel Core i9-13900HX - Raptor Lake, often breaks due to burnouts caused by overclocking by Intel with using high voltages.

Use Intel Meteor Lake (such as Intel Core Ultra 9 185H) or AMD.

SUSE/OpenSUSE use patched Linux kernel, support for new hw can be added lately.

IMHO right now new AMD CPUs are better than Intel’s.