News AMD's RDNA2 'Duty Cycle Scaling' Shuts Down GPU to Meet TDP

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AMD's RDNA2 GPUs support Duty Cycle Scaling capability.

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Meanwhile, frame-aligned DCS is designed to shut off a graphics core after it renders a frame, which obviously affects performance badly

When someone says "obviously", it generally means they're incorrect. Frame-aligning the shutdown can reduce the visual impact on performance less than a randomly-timed shutdown, for similar reasons that frame-aligning your monitor to your graphics card improves smoothness.