kernellogger, (edited ) Sound devices including their drivers and settings can heavily influence GPU benchmarks. I learned that when it was my day job to run such tests. This #Linux regression report reminded me of it: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABXGCsNmEtrN9DK-XmESaPm_1xpXm8A%2BjuE%2B44Jf6AK5JE0%2BTQ@mail.gmail.com/
"I spotted that FPS was around 122 in the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark at commit f6cef5f8c37f but after moving to commit 4ae3dc83b047 ("ALSA: timer: Fix missing irq-disable at closing") it decreased to 84".