AMD Strix Point Performance Continues Evolving Nicely With Ubuntu 25.10
For those making use of AMD Strix Point in edge computing devices or other thin servers / small form factors, Ubuntu 25.10 was bringing some nice gains and power efficiency improvements to the more typical Linux server workloads too.
Even if you don't typically run non-LTS Ubuntu Linux releases, these Ubuntu 25.10 and Linux 6.18 results are enticing as a look ahead toward Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in April.
Across dozens of benchmarks run in total, Ubuntu 25.10 on this ASUS Zenbook S16 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 was delivering incrementally better performance overall than Ubuntu 25.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from launch day.
Equally exciting was the better performance on the same AMD Strix Point hardware at slightly lower power overall than prior Ubuntu / Linux kernel versions.
Ubuntu 25.10 is looking good on the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series. Plus there is also now the Ubuntu amd64v3 architecture variant that happened to be announced hours ago to potentially deliver even greater performance. That will be the focus of separate follow-up articles to come.
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