With the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out in three weeks, I have been re-testing a number of different devices on this newest Ubuntu release. One of the most significant improvements to note was when running the Framework Desktop with Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” and quantifying the performance gains of the Radeon 8060S Graphics since launch last year. Here’s a look at how the Vulkan and OpenGL performance has evolved for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 since its launch last year in going from Ubuntu 26.04 to Ubuntu 26.04.
This round of testing is looking at the performance of the Framework Desktop with Ryzen AI Max+ 395 back when I ran my original benchmarks on it in July in preparation for the review embargo lift in early August. That initial testing was done on Ubuntu 25.04 as the stable release of the time and featured packages like the Linux 6.14 kernel and Mesa 25.0.7 graphics drivers and GNOME 48 desktop.
Now in moving to Ubuntu 26.04 is the Linux 7.0 kernel, Mesa 26.0 graphics drivers, GNOME 50 desktop, and other up-to-date software packages.
The same Framework Desktop was used for all this testing with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo”, 64GB of LPDDR5-8000 memory, Radeon 8060S integrated graphics, and 2TB WD_BLACK SN700 NVMe SSD.
This is quite a straight-forward look at how the AMDGPU performance with RADV Vulkan driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver have evolved since the Framework Desktop launched last year, using the same tests/versions as then with that original testing. Let’s see these fascinating performance gains. With having had to return the HP ZBook Ultra G1a review unit some months ago, the Framework Desktop remains my main Strix Halo device for ongoing Linux testing at Phoronix – thanks Framework Computer!
