Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 2 June 2026 at 10:40 AM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 36 Comments.
For many user-space, CPU-bound workloads like Blender there wasn't any meaningful performance benefit from the different kernels tested on CachyOS.
Similarly, for many of the graphics benchmarks there wasn't much of a difference.
In code compilation workloads it came down to the hardened kernel having slower build times due to the additional security hardening.