Geekbench results have halved as compared to when I had freshly installed Garuda!

Recently I started noticing some lag in the display and my FlightGear simulator has started crashing. It all started maybe within a week.
So today I decided to get some Geekbench results and to my surprise, it has halved as compared to when I had freshly installed Garuda!

I tried disabling Secure Boot(which I had recently implemented), disabling Gnome extensions, removing vulkan-radeon(which I had recently installed for running x-plane 12 demo),

and all of this doesn't seem to have any impact on the benchmarks.

I even tried booting from linux kernel from the arch repos, but no difference.
(As you can see in the last benchmark)

❯ garuda-inxi
System:
  Kernel: 5.19.12-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux
    root=UUID=974f3ce6-ba35-41c5-a737-23cb1e2b873f rw rootflags=subvol=@
    lsm=landlock,lockdown,yama,integrity,apparmor,bpf quiet splash
    mitigations=off rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    loglevel=3
  Desktop: GNOME v: 42.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.34 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM v: 42.0
    Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SF314-43 v: V1.04
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LN model: Sake_CA v: V1.04 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04 date: 07/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 50.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 50.8/53.2 Wh (95.5%)
    volts: 13.1 min: 11.6 model: COSMX AP20CBL type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: full
  Device-1: apple_mfi_fastcharge model: N/A serial: N/A charge: N/A
    status: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 2 gen: 3 level: v3 built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
    family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x8608102
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1399 high: 1400 min/max: 1400/4056 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: powersave cores: 1: 1398 2: 1400
    3: 1400 4: 1400 5: 1400 6: 1400 7: 1397 8: 1400 9: 1400 10: 1400 11: 1400
    12: 1400 bogomips: 50325
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Vulnerable
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
  Type: spectre_v1 status: Vulnerable: __user pointer sanitization and
    usercopy barriers only; no swapgs barriers
  Type: spectre_v2 status: Vulnerable, IBPB: disabled, STIBP: disabled,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu
    v: kernel arch: GCN-5.1 code: Vega-2 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2018-21
    pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:3
    chip-ID: 0408:a094 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x683d built: 2019 res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 158 gamma: 1.2 size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 14.0.6 DRM 3.47 5.19.12-arch1-1) v: 4.6
    Mesa 22.1.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated
    ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Acer Incorporated
    ALI driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel
    alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x,snd_pci_acp6x,snd_acp_pci,snd_sof_amd_renoir
    pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.12-arch1-1 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.58 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lite-On driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: enp3s0f3u1c4i2 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Lite-On Wireless_Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-4:4 chip-ID: 04ca:3802 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 53.11 GiB (11.1%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Kingston model: OM8PDP3512B-AA1
    size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: EDFK0S03
    temp: 41.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 64.41 GiB size: 64.41 GiB (100.00%) used: 15.84 GiB
    (24.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 600 MiB size: 598.8 MiB (99.80%) used: 2 MiB
    (0.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 64 GiB size: 64 GiB (100.00%) used: 7.98 GiB
    (12.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 64.41 GiB size: 64.41 GiB (100.00%) used: 15.84
    GiB (24.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 64.41 GiB size: 64.41 GiB (100.00%) used: 15.84
    GiB (24.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.12 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 41.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 357 Uptime: 18m wakeups: 1652 Memory: 7.12 GiB used: 3.38 GiB
  (47.4%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 1511 pm: pacman pkgs: 1488 libs: 379
  tools: gnome-software,pamac,paru pm: flatpak pkgs: 23 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
  running-in: terminator inxi: 3.3.21
Garuda (2.6.8-1):
  System install date:     2022-09-28
  Last full system update: 2022-09-29
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       NetworkManager
  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
  Snapshots:               Snapper
  Failed units:
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Your CPU may be getting throttled by using the powersave governor. If you wish for better performance, switch from using Powersave tweaks to Performance tweaks in Garuda Assistant.

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Wow, that solved the issue!
I even got the best-ever benchmark on this laptop!

Thanks!

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