If you don't clear the cache, somebody could forensically examine your hard drive, and infer what websites you've been to.
The tricky thing is, even if you clear the cache on exit, the files still exist on the hard drive or SSD. And still can be recovered forensically. It's better to not write them at all to disk if you're worried about privacy
If you want to browser that doesn't store anything on disc, look at the tor foundation browser, or the mullvad browser. Both code bases do everything they can to prevent things from being written to disk even temporarily.