Top runs:

• Highest FPS: lavd-defaults shows an average FPS slightly higher than the rest, indicating a strong performance.
• Smoothest FPS: asdf-defaults offers the smallest standard deviation, ensuring a stable and consistent frame rate.
• Best overall: lavd-defaults combines a high average FPS with reasonably low variation, making it the best overall performance in this benchmark.

Issues:

• The fourth configuration, utilizing the bpfland scheduler, demonstrated a significantly lower average FPS compared to others. This difference is reflected in a roughly 4% drop in FPS and a significantly higher frame time variance compared to its counterparts.
• The third configuration also using the bpfland scheduler showed a particularly high frame time variance, indicating inconsistent performance, which can be disruptive during gameplay.
• The temperatures for CPU and GPU in the fourth bpfland configuration were lower, likely indicative of less system strain, which correlates to the lower FPS performance.

Summary

This benchmark primarily explores the impact of various schedulers on the performance of Cyberpunk 2077 on a Steam Deck using CachyOS operating system with schedutil as the Linux scheduler. Particularly, the lavd scheduler offered the best performance with the highest average FPS and balanced stability. Meanwhile, the asdf configuration excelled in smoothness due to its low variability in FPS. However, the bpfland configurations underperformed, which might suggest limitations or inefficiencies with this scheduler, emphasizing the significance of scheduler choice in achieving optimal game performance.