Intel or Amd grafic card?

English Hardware
1

I’d like to buy a new laptop with an integrated grafic card.
Which one is better supported: Intel or Amd?
What about the integrated card AMD Radeon™?

2

Hi
Both work fine here desktop (intel, amd and nvidia on Tumbleweed) and laptops with intel and single and dual amd gpu running Leap (but GCN 2 and 3 cards). Support for newer AMD (eg renoir) might have to wait for Leap 15.3 for better support.

Perhaps details of some of the laptops your looking at?

3

Thanks for the answer.
This one looks good: HP ProBook 455 G7 Notebook.

4

Hi
Not had issues with ProBooks, this has the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U APU? If so, wait for other Forum users will share experiences…

5

Yes.
To be more accurate:
AMD Ryzen™ 7 4700U APU with Radeon™ Graphics (2 GHz base clock, up to 4.1 GHz max boost clock, 8 MB L3 cache, 8 cores); or AMD Ryzen™ 54500U APU with Radeon™ Graphics (2.3 GHz base clock, up to 4 GHz max boost clock, 8 MB L3 cache, 6 cores);

6

AMD APUs are good, but not for GPGPU/OpenCL.
For OpenCL you need Intel or Nvidia. I.e. not single integrated AMD GPU & not dual AMD integrated + AMD discrete.
Possibly Leap 15.2 & 15.3 will stuck with 5.10.15-1 kernel-syms and kernel-default-devel packages, not newer:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182338
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182224

7

I need the pc only for office work (not for games or complicated graphic tasks).

8

Hi
Then either should be fine with amdgpu oss driver… search forum posts (advanced search, top right) for ryzen 5 and ryzen 7.

9

No AMD expert here, but I saw recent posts about recent Ryzens 5 and 7 needing a recent kernel, so be prepared to use Tumbleweed for a few months until Leap catches up.
Intel developers are faster to offer support in Linux, so that might be more conservative.
Best option is to download a live iso and make sure that it works on a similar notebook, if you have that chance.

10

Check models which fit your needs and work well with a live system on a stick. Make sure to test thoroughly, especially whether suspend is working correctly. When buying online you always may undo your purchase in case of malfunction.

11

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U or AMD Ryzen 5 4500U APU = AMD Renoir family.
First support in Linux kernel 5.4, improved in 5.8+.
ILL we need Leap + new kernel from kernel:stable or TW for AMD Renoir.

Maybe there will be patches for Leap 15.3.
Try Leap 15.3 or Leap 15.2 with kernels from these repos:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/SLE15-SP3/standard/
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/SLE15-SP3-UPDATE/standard/