Note: I am a newbie at gaming on linux

Hello everyone. I installed CachyOS on my lenovo ideaPad gaming 3 laptop with the following specs:

Intel core i7-12700H
RTX 3060 Mobile (6GB VRAM)
16 GB of DDR4 RAM

But when playing Minecraft with mid shaders i get no more than 25-30 FPS while inWindows I got 55 FPS. I REALLY don't wanna go back to windows but this is something that holds me back from daily driving linux everywhere. plz help. thanks

Additional info

Kernel version:

❯ uname -a

Linux batupc 6.18.6-2-cachyos #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:31:44 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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❯ uname -r

6.18.6-2-cachyos

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Nvidia drivers:
❯ nvidia-smi

Sun Jan 25 23:24:25 2026

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 590.48.01 Driver Version: 590.48.01 CUDA Version: 13.1 |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |

| N/A 35C P0 752W / 80W | 1MiB / 6144MiB | 3% Default |

| | | N/A |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| No running processes found |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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I am running Minecraft using Prism Launcher and I am using the shader loader Iris with Fabric. I haven't gotten the chance of installing any other games yet

Edit: u/Gloomy-Response solved my issue. "In prism launcher, there is a setting to use the dedicated GPU. Settings -> Minecraft -> Tweaks -> Use discrete GPU." I get 95-100 FPS now

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