CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 3 April 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 6. 29 Comments.
Turning to the CPU benchmarks, the Panther Lake laptop was yielding the best performance results on CachyOS.
👁 simdjson benchmark with settings of Throughput Test: DistinctUserID. Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.
In some benchmarks the results were quite close between Linux distributions given the similarity in key package versions.
In the heavier workloads like video encoding, CachyOS returned to delivering the best performance.
For some of these workloads, CachyOS provides a noticeably more performant experience than on Ubuntu 26.04.