[stebalien]

The main reason for CachyOS to exist is that it can take bigger risks and ship defaults more mature distros wouldn't be comfortable with.

In terms of benchmarks, gamers tend to care more about consistent responsiveness (and worstcase performance) than raw throughput. Phoronix benchmarks are probably not the best way to compare CachyOS against other distros. E.g., look at the game benchmarks you linked: all tested games were already running above 500 frames per second in the worst performing game.