Linux 7.1 and Mesa 26.1 Show No Gains for Radeon RX 9070 Cards in New Tests
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Updated · Phoronix · Jun 4
Linux 7.1 and Mesa 26.1 Show No Gains for Radeon RX 9070 Cards in New Tests
2 articles · Updated · Phoronix · Jun 4
Summary
Fresh tests of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE and RX 9070 XT found Linux 7.1 Git plus Mesa 26.1.1 delivered no meaningful performance gains over Ubuntu 26.04’s stock Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 stack.
The retest was run after readers asked whether newer kernel and user-space graphics drivers could lift results beyond the baseline used in this week’s RX 9070 GRE Linux review.
Benchmarks showed the two RX 9070 models performing essentially the same across the updated software stack, with one possible exception: a Mesa 26.1 regression on the RX 9070 GRE in the Breaking Limit ray-tracing test.
The result suggests Radeon RX 9070-series users already get near-final out-of-box performance on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, with little reason to expect immediate speedups from these driver updates alone.