Last week I provided benchmarks to quantify how the AMD Strix Halo graphics performance has evolved since launch one year ago, in today’s article is a look at how the Zen 5 CPU performance with the flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has evolved under Linux in the year since these exciting APUs began making their way to high-end laptops and desktops. Complementing the nice Radeon 8060S performance gains are also some nice CPU performance benefits quantified when using Ubuntu 26.04.
Today’s Strix Halo Linux testing is similar to last week’s comparison in looking at the original Ryzen AI Max+ 395 numbers on the Framework Desktop from testing last summer to now. Back for the Framework Desktop launch was Ubuntu 25.04 with the Linux 6.14 kernel, GCC 14.2, and other software components of the time. Now one year later with Ubuntu 26.04 is Linux 7.0, GCC 15.2, and many other software updates over time. Some of the kernel improvements over the past year have targeted recent AMD platforms while in other cases there have been general performance optimizations to lift all (or most) processors.
The same Framework Desktop hardware was used for testing with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 64GB of memory, and 2TB WD_BLACK SN700 NVMe SSD.
Let’s see how Ubuntu 25.04 vs. 26.04 looks for AMD Strix Halo CPU performance on the Framework Desktop.
