HP · 2024
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 (Ryzen AI 9 HX 375)
One of the fastest 14-inch chips you can buy, a Zen 5 HX 375 with a 55-TOPS NPU, in a dull but solid HP shell from 1350 dollars. Needs kernel 6.11+, has a fiddly speaker amp on Linux, and the RAM is soldered.
Compiled from public sources and community data, not hands-on tested. What that means.
Best on fedora. Confidence: high
Scores
Specs
| CPU | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon 890M (integrated) |
| RAM | 32 GB (soldered) |
| Storage | 1024 GB |
| Screen | 14" 2240x1400 @ 60Hz |
| Weight | 1.49 kg |
| Battery (real) | ~10 h |
Linux compatibility
- fedora Minor setup
- Wi-Fi
- works
- Bluetooth
- works
- Fingerprint
- broken
- Webcam
- works
- Audio
- needs tweak
- Suspend
- needs tweak
- ubuntu-lts Minor setup
- Wi-Fi
- works
- Bluetooth
- works
- Fingerprint
- broken
- Webcam
- works
- Audio
- needs tweak
- Suspend
- needs tweak
fedora: Strix Point (HX 375) needs a recent kernel: 6.11 or newer for the Radeon 890M and clean s2idle, so Fedora 41+ over Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as shipped. Audio on these HP chassis often routes through an amplifier that wants a sof-firmware and UCM update before the speakers behave. Fingerprint reader has no libfprint driver. RAM is soldered LPDDR5x. The chip itself is the fast part here, the rest is HP business-class plain. Phoronix: AMD Strix Point on Linux (6.10/6.11) →
ubuntu-lts: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ships 6.8 and is too old for Strix Point; use the HWE kernel or 24.10+ to get the iGPU and suspend right. Same speaker-amp tweak as Fedora.