Ubuntu 26.10 Set To Deliver Better Performance For Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 15 September 2026 at 11:34 AM EDT. Page 6 of 6. Add A Comment.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of PBKDF2-sha512. Ubuntu 26.10 13 Sep was the fastest.

Cryptsetup's PBKDF2-sha512 performance saw a huge leap in performance on Ubuntu 26.10 while the other Cryptsetup benchmarks were unchanged.

PyBench benchmark with settings of Total For Average Test Times. Ubuntu 26.10 13 Sep was the fastest.
PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: chaos. Ubuntu 26.10 13 Sep was the fastest.
PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: float. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was the fastest.
PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: sphinx. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was the fastest.
PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: regex_dna. Ubuntu 26.10 13 Sep was the fastest.
PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gc_collect. Ubuntu 26.10 13 Sep was the fastest.
PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: json_loads. Ubuntu 26.10 13 Sep was the fastest.

With both Ubuntu 26.04 and 26.10 using the Python 3.14 series, there wasn't much to see out of the Python scripting benchmarks in this round of testing.

Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 Intel Wildcat Lake. Ubuntu 26.10 13 Sep was the fastest.

When running 160+ benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.10 on this CHUWI UnniBook $449 laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake, the upcoming Ubuntu release was around 4% faster overall. The most exciting performance improvements on this low-end laptop were found around I/O and the graphics performance. That 4% improvement on Ubuntu 26.10 is still well short of CachyOS being around 17% faster than Ubuntu 26.04 on the same CHUWI UniBook Wildcat Lake laptop.

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