The Intel Lunar Lake CPU Performance Gains On Linux Over The Past Year
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 29 April 2026 at 01:30 PM EDT. Page 4 of 7. 13 Comments.
For most of the benchmarks conducted, the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V was performing the same or slightly faster while the biggest "win" with the new Linux software stack was the enhancements to power efficiency.
Compared to prior Ubuntu releases that defaulted to OpenJDK Java 21, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS defaults to OpenJDK Java 25 and that helps with providing better performance for Java workloads.