Phoronix testing indicates that AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" APUs, specifically the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics, show notable performance improvements when running on the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS compared to Ubuntu 25.04. These gains were observed across both Vulkan and OpenGL benchmarks. The testing, conducted on a Framework Desktop, highlights the ongoing software optimization for AMD's latest integrated graphics hardware on the Linux platform. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is expected to be released in three weeks, and these results suggest that users of Strix Halo devices will benefit from significant out-of-the-box graphics performance enhancements with the new distribution.