# Top runs: * **Highest FPS**: `Windows 10 Krakoa` with approximately 18% higher average FPS compared to its competitor. * **Smoothest FPS**: `CachyOS Krakoa`, featuring roughly 12% lower variability in FPS, indicating more consistent performance. * **Best overall**: `CachyOS Krakoa`, due to its smoother framerate, aligning better with consistent gameplay despite a slightly lower average FPS. # Issues: * The `Windows 10 Krakoa` configuration shows a substantially higher frame time variance, over 40 times higher, indicating FPS spikes that can affect smoothness. * The configurations compared different operating systems and significantly different CPU and GPU clock settings. While `Windows 10 Krakoa` is manually overclocked, `CachyOS Krakoa` uses default boosted performance settings. This discrepancy impacts direct comparability. * The power consumption on `Windows 10 Krakoa` is roughly 71% higher, which might indicate less efficient power management, impacting overall system stability during extended gameplay. # Summary The benchmark compares `CachyOS` with enhanced performance tweaks and `Windows 10` with manual overclocking and system optimization. `CachyOS` achieves more consistent performance with smoother frame rates due to the use of `sched-ext bpfland` scheduler and launch chain optimizations, while `Windows 10` delivers higher peak FPS but suffers from fluctuations and increased power consumption. This suggests that `CachyOS` may deliver a more stable experience in this context, even though `Windows 10` provides raw frame rate numbers.