AMD Ryzen AI 7 350

Pros

• The AMD 350 moderately excels in compute, gaming  and battery runtime.
• the amd is better at battery and debatable at gaming since fsr
• AI 7 350 competes in different market segment , it's more efficient chip with some NPU cores, for entry level AI student
• You mean that your 35W laptop SoC demolished one of the most powerful workstation chips from a couple of generations ago?
• latest cpu architecture (zen 5 vs zen 4), which improved single core performance, and, even more importantly for your use case, includes zen 5c core, which have higher efficiency and help boosting battery life when unplugged.

Cons

• However, it's hampered by weak MediaTek WiFi. (Many 350 laptops come with it.) Also, the GPU drivers have been bumpy during kernel 6.x development.
• I would avoid the "ai 7" and either get a last year ryzen 9 or ai 9. Id also get 32gb memory.
• The Ultra 7 is a rather significant step up in performance from the ai 7 350: https://technical.city/en/cpu/Core-Ultra-7-255H-vs-Ryzen-AI-7-350 about a +25% performance difference
• Hey, I'm wondering which one I should pick between those 2 laptops, both are Asus Vivobook 16. Ryzen AI 7 350 or Intel Ultra 5 225H?
• I wanted to upgrade from 8845 to 350 , lenovo yoga. But it turns out I would be downgrading my already limited gaming on my work laptop.