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from CachyOS's web site: > CachyOS is designed to deliver lightning-fast speeds Ok, can we see the benchmarks on some popular video games, compared to vanilla

by ahepp 1y ago

from CachyOS's web site: > CachyOS is designed to deliver lightning-fast speeds Ok, can we see the benchmarks on some popular video games, compared to vanilla Arch? Then let's compare it to Ubuntu for good measure. If they are making the claim that it's lightning fast, surely that has been measured?

amlib 1y ago
There are some extensive benchmarks in phoronix and it seems like CachyOS always stays ahead or even at the lead on both "first places" and the geometric mean of all tests.
- ahepp 1y ago
  > But if taking the geometric mean of all those benchmarks, CachyOS performance overall was similar to that of Fedora / EndeavourOS / Ubuntu while Clear Linux maintained a ~6.5% advantage overall compared to those other Linux distributions. from https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-linux-perf https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-linux-perf And that's without really digging deep into significance testing.
  - kokada 1y ago
    The benchmarks from this article are mostly focused in non-gaming workloads. If you look at the few games that was tested, it seems that CachyOS has some performance advantages, in some cases significantly so.
    - ahepp 1y ago
      It looks like they ran a bunch of open source games. Even the slowest combination in the benchmarks is getting over 500 FPS. Why wouldn't they just test it with normal commercial video games? It doesn't give me a lot of confidence.
      - kokada 1y ago
        Because they're not a site focused in gaming benchmarks I guess? Not every site needs to be focused in everything, and having a few opensource games is enough to give an idea of graphics performance.
bethchg 1y ago
You could be less gullible and influenced by language. You could be change you want to see and download and run benchmarks and publish and hold them to it. Sorry they only cooked the steak and didn’t raise the cow too. If only everyone had RD team budget, you know. Faster is too simple a benchmark and just headline wank anyway. Performance per how much more on my power bill is more interesting to me. If their “improvements” just shift burden to me it’s not an improvement.
OsrsNeedsf2P 1y ago
I'm more interested in benchmarks compared to Windows or MacOS. I doubt any Linux distro even comes close
- jeppester 1y ago
  Then I guess you'll be surprised to learn that Linux is usually faster for most things with gaming being the exception. Even when it comes to gaming it's becoming more and more of a "trading blows" situation over time. Still I don't think that speed in itself is very important when making a desktop OS choice. The differences are usually too small matter in my opinion.
- thewebguyd 1y ago
  > I'm more interested in benchmarks compared to Windows or MacOS. I doubt any Linux distro even comes close Ars ran an article last month comparing SteamOS to Windows 11, with SteamOS coming out ahead: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s... I don't think there's been any macOS comparisons done as there's no equivalent to proton to run windows games, outside of vanilla wine, as whisky is now no longer maintained
- WD-42 1y ago
  I wouldn't be so certain. Here are some recent benchmarks on newer CPUs: https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunarlake-windows11-ubuntu2504/6 https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunarlake-windows11-ubuntu25... > Across dozens of benchmarks run on Windows 11 and Ubuntu Linux 25.04 from these two Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V within the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura was around 23% faster on Ubuntu 25.04 than the stock Windows 11 Pro installation. The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop with the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 was 8% faster on Ubuntu 25.04 than Linux. The Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 "Strix Point" though with 8-cores plus SMT, AVX-512, and other features was much faster overall on both operating systems than the Intel Lunar Lake SoC.
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amlib 1y ago

There are some extensive benchmarks in phoronix and it seems like CachyOS always stays ahead or even at the lead on both "first places" and the geometric mean of all tests.

ahepp 1y ago
> But if taking the geometric mean of all those benchmarks, CachyOS performance overall was similar to that of Fedora / EndeavourOS / Ubuntu while Clear Linux maintained a ~6.5% advantage overall compared to those other Linux distributions. from https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-linux-perf https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-linux-perf And that's without really digging deep into significance testing.
- kokada 1y ago
  The benchmarks from this article are mostly focused in non-gaming workloads. If you look at the few games that was tested, it seems that CachyOS has some performance advantages, in some cases significantly so.
  - ahepp 1y ago
    It looks like they ran a bunch of open source games. Even the slowest combination in the benchmarks is getting over 500 FPS. Why wouldn't they just test it with normal commercial video games? It doesn't give me a lot of confidence.
    - kokada 1y ago
      Because they're not a site focused in gaming benchmarks I guess? Not every site needs to be focused in everything, and having a few opensource games is enough to give an idea of graphics performance.

bethchg 1y ago

You could be less gullible and influenced by language. You could be change you want to see and download and run benchmarks and publish and hold them to it. Sorry they only cooked the steak and didn’t raise the cow too. If only everyone had RD team budget, you know. Faster is too simple a benchmark and just headline wank anyway. Performance per how much more on my power bill is more interesting to me. If their “improvements” just shift burden to me it’s not an improvement.

OsrsNeedsf2P 1y ago

I'm more interested in benchmarks compared to Windows or MacOS. I doubt any Linux distro even comes close

jeppester 1y ago
Then I guess you'll be surprised to learn that Linux is usually faster for most things with gaming being the exception. Even when it comes to gaming it's becoming more and more of a "trading blows" situation over time. Still I don't think that speed in itself is very important when making a desktop OS choice. The differences are usually too small matter in my opinion.
thewebguyd 1y ago
> I'm more interested in benchmarks compared to Windows or MacOS. I doubt any Linux distro even comes close Ars ran an article last month comparing SteamOS to Windows 11, with SteamOS coming out ahead: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s... I don't think there's been any macOS comparisons done as there's no equivalent to proton to run windows games, outside of vanilla wine, as whisky is now no longer maintained
WD-42 1y ago
I wouldn't be so certain. Here are some recent benchmarks on newer CPUs: https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunarlake-windows11-ubuntu2504/6 https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunarlake-windows11-ubuntu25... > Across dozens of benchmarks run on Windows 11 and Ubuntu Linux 25.04 from these two Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V within the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura was around 23% faster on Ubuntu 25.04 than the stock Windows 11 Pro installation. The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop with the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 was 8% faster on Ubuntu 25.04 than Linux. The Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 "Strix Point" though with 8-cores plus SMT, AVX-512, and other features was much faster overall on both operating systems than the Intel Lunar Lake SoC.
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