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Early Linux 6.17 Tests Show Some AMD Strix Halo Performance Improvements & Regressions
Even prior to the Linux 6.17-rc1 release on Sunday I already had kicked off some Linux 6.17 Git benchmarking in being eager to see how the performance is beginning to shape up for this next kernel release that is set to power the likes of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43
Starting off with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 I am seeing some workloads having some nice improvements on the new kernel but also some regressions. In a few web browser tests and also schbench as the Linux kernel synthetic scheduler benchmark was some really nice improvements. Particularly due to the strong difference in the single-threaded web browser performance, coming to mind is the AMD Hardware Feedback Interface that was merged for Linux 6.17.
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