Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 29 June 2026 at 12:50 PM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 3 Comments.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.

3DMark Wild Life Extreme running on the Radeon AI PRO R9700 was seeing a nice performance bump with AMDGPU in Linux 7.2.

GravityMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Renderer: Vulkan. Linux 7.1 was the fastest.
GravityMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Renderer: Vulkan Ray-Tracing. Linux 7.1 was the fastest.
GravityMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Renderer: Vulkan. Linux 7.1 was the fastest.
GravityMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Renderer: Vulkan Ray-Tracing. Linux 7.1 was the fastest.
GPUScore: Breaking Limit benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Ray-Tracing: On. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.
GPUScore: Breaking Limit benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Ray-Tracing: Off. Linux 7.1 was the fastest.

But in other Radeon graphics benchmarks conducted, there wasn't any observed performance difference.

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