industry move that matters for local users

[audiopoint18]

I think the bottleneck is somewhere else. I get why that seems right, but on dual 3090 the bottleneck felt elsewhere. Worth testing the simpler explanation before adopting the more interesting one.

[bytelab]

Appreciate the detail. I don't think your conclusion is far off. The biggest change for me was simplifying the stack instead of adding one more optimization layer.