

You can use Bumblebee to ensure your game is the only thing that gets the GPU by running only it through optirun
(AMD support is probably not coming soon)
You can also use taskset
to ensure that only your game gets physical CPU cores, and everything else gets efficiency CPU cores
That’s graduating cum laude in course. To graduate cum laude in thesis, you’d need to complete an honors project, typically during your last year, write and submit an honors thesis to your university’s honors committee, and defend your thesis, where you present and answer questions about it.