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I’m trying to work out why my two dispatches, which are each taking ~300us, are showing in command buffers that are executing for ~1600us. Those two dispatch calls are consecutive D3D API calls, and are followed directly by framebuffer clear on the draw command buffer.
Any idea how I can find out what the GPU is doing between the dispatches?
The overhead seems to be constant. Before optimising those dispatches, the first one was taking ~2000us, but there was still >1000us mystery time afterward.
Cheers