>>2088check your power profiles in the acer nitro sense software first. these factory settings usually prioritize
acoustic noise reduction over raw gpu clock speeds, which explains why you're hitting a wall during upscaling. try setting it to max performance and then use nvidia-smi -pl wattage to manually bump the power limit if your thermal headroom allows it.
>it's almost always thermal throttling on these thin chassis laptops. if you're running stable but slow, you might need to undervolt the cpu to leave more room for the vram to breathe. have you tried using a cooling pad or at least elevating the back of the deck to see if the benchmarks stabilize? lol