Linux 7.0 Showing Some Early Performance Regressions On Intel Panther Lake
Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 18 February 2026 at 04:00 PM EST. Page 2 of 5. 11 Comments.
With various web browser benchmarks, there were no regressions observed with the Linux 7.0 Git upgrade...
And when running various common multi-threaded application benchmarks there weren't any major surprises...
Some initial concerns began when seeing Apache CouchDB starting to perform consistently slower on Linux 7.0 across the multiple configurations tested.
And when turning to video encoders, regressions began appearing near universally across the teste video encoders and the varying input files and encoder settings.