Linux 6.19: 40% Speed Boost on Old AMD GPUs & Faster Ext4
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.19, moving legacy AMD Radeon GPUs to the modern amdgpu driver and enabling larger block sizes in ext4 for improved storage performance. The AMD driver switch brings native Vulkan support to Radeon R9 290 and HD 7000 series GPUs, while the ext4 filesystem breaks the 4KB page size limit to improve write operations by up to 50%. Following a one-week delay, this kernel benefited from an extended eight-week development cycle. As Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will ship with the next kernel release, officially named Linux 7.0, current Ubuntu users can install mainline 6.19 builds via unsupported methods. For […]
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