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Here’s the thing most people miss when comparing the two approaches: Curve Optimizer and fixed all-core clocks optimize for completely different goals. CO is fundamentally about efficiency and thermal headroom — you’re reducing the voltage demand across every frequency bin, which lowers temps and lets your cores sustain higher boost clocks longer before hitting power or thermal walls. For competitive gaming specifically

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[Caleb Cook]

Great topic to kick this off. The biggest practical gotcha with concurrent graphics/compute dispatch is that async compute isn’t free perf—it’s only beneficial when you have enough independent work to keep both pipeline stages saturated. If your compute shader is trivial or short, the dispatch overhead and barrier stalls actually cost frames because you’re context-switching the CUs instead of letting graphics run uninterrupted. The classic production failure mode I see is a missing barrier between a compute write and a graphics read on the same resource (e.g.

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