Yeah I am not sure why there is a GPU and CPU score separate. But it comes down to the fps locked. I will do screenshots to showcase it.
Because each frame drawn takes CPU and GPU time.
The CPU FPS number represents framerate if you had an infinitely fast GPU that could render as fast as the CPU is generating commands. Here in the real world, if you want to measure that you generally set the resolution to 640x480 and tada, you’re benchmarking CPUs now 
It hurts when someone tells me i need a high end CPU for 4k gaming at 60fps 
In regards to using the swapchain and borderless method.
What is the general FPS limit we should choose for the game with that method? The TargetFPS FPS? Or our screen’s refresh rate? Since in my case, that’s 144hz but the FPS limit option only goes to 120.
Used the following commands with SK:
Ctrl+Shift+1=TargetFPS 60
Ctrl+Shift+2=TargetFPS 45
Ctrl+Shift+3=TargetFPS 30
Ctrl+Shift+0=TargetFPS 0
Everything was exactly same, Vsync and settings.
TargetFPS is whatever you want it to be, but should ideally be a factor of your refresh rate or you will get periodic microstutter.
Ignore the game’s framerate limit setting, Special K basically has the best in the industry Turn off the game’s and just use TargetFPS.
As you can see from my post that its dictated by Avg FPS at top left corner. 
So In my case I should do like 144 / 72 / 48 / 36 ?
Just to get it right, but with “turn off” you mean just put it on unlimited in the menu?
Yes. Set the game’s setting to “Unlimited.”
Yes. ANd use SK ini config to lock fps.
My bad, i realize where i went wrong in looking at the graphs. I feel stupid now 
I forgot to take into account that the CPU and GPU FPS are not limited by any FPS limiter - it’s just what they’re capable of managing. As visible in your screenshots, your CPU and GPU scores are around the same in all screenshots (variances within margin of error basically, excluding the CPU minimums when limited to 30fps).
Thank you.
I figured I’d ask since even with SK running (as I tested before with the achievement sound) I’m still getting some bad stutter mostly during conversations.
They’re probably the parts that can’t be fixed until they actually put out a new patch. A shame, but I’m sure SK is taking care of the other nastier ones (My first run was immediately with SK, so I probably don’t even see how bad it can be without SK in the first place. )
Yeah no problem man. I seen these kind of benchmarks before. They always base it off the avg fps stat alone. It is kinda weird but it also makes sense.
Well, they’re benchmarking peak performance… which is not a measure of how playable a game is by any stretch of the imagination. Those are just for e-peen points 
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Even percentiles are a poor measure of playability. Standard deviation is a much better statistic, but meaningless to most people.
Speaking of which … Special K kicks the living … out of the competition in Batman Arkham Knight wrt/ std. deviation
An entire order of magnitude difference. But, then again, it’s Arkham Knight. Of course Special K does amazing stuff in that game.
hello guys! i’m really new here and using this type of modding. just because I desperately want to play HZD smoothly
So, i’m using Epic Games variant, and how do I know if it’s working or not?
I can’t find the .ini files etc,
I extracted the SKIF to Documents/My Mods/SpecialK
About the whitelist, I read somewhere in the forum it could be like just HorizonZeroDawn.exe, or am I doing something wrong here?
Thank you in advance
So I’ve tried to verify Special K is running on Horizon New Dawn (by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + T) but no achievement sound happens. How is everyone else getting it to work? I have the global service running.
Yes, just add the name of the executable to the whitelist.
I believe Ctrl+Shift+T only works on the Steam version, as that hotkey basically makes a test unlock for Special K’s custom achievement popups – which itself relies on Special K’s Steam enhancements which are, well, only available for Steam.
Similarly, I imagine Steam users that have set Silent=true under [Steam.Log] won’t have that hotkey do anything either.
In general, however, if your game have some sort of FPS limiter you might be able to verify it working by using the below hotkeys if you’ve added those to the Special K config file:
Ctrl+Shift+2=TargetFPS 45
Ctrl+Shift+3=TargetFPS 30
Ctrl+Shift+0=TargetFPS 0
This is what I had to do in order to get Special K running with Horizon Zero Dawn. Only local implementation has succeeded out of all my efforts to get Special K to generate a folder & .ini in Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles for HZD.
Kal’s settings are great too!
(Kaldaien’s .ini)