Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 14 April 2026 at 01:22 PM EDT. Page 6 of 7. 10 Comments.
Ubuntu 26.04 defaults to OpenJDK 25 as the default Java version rather than OpenJDK 21. That in turn can mean better performance for some Java workloads on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
👁 Git benchmark with settings of Time To Complete Common Git Commands. Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.
I was surprised to find such a large performance improvement out of Git on Ubuntu 26.04 with this ASUS Zenbook S 16 laptop.
👁 PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: asyncio_tcp_ssl. Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.
Ubuntu 26.04 is using Python 3.14 compared to Python 3.12 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The Python upgrade does deliver some nice performance gains as shown on this AMD Ryzen AI laptop.