The described technology addresses one or more of the foregoing problems by receiving one or more workloads from an application. Each of the one or more graphics workloads are associated with completion deadline information and execution metadata representing execution guidance for the workload. The described technology further generates a processor performance adjustment for each of the one or more workloads using a performance model providing the processor performance adjustment based on the completion deadline information and the execution metadata for each of the one or more workloads. The described technology further communicates each of the one or more received workloads and its corresponding generated processor performance adjustment to a processor subsystem. Each of the processor performance adjustments instructs the processor subsystem on a processor adjustment to be implemented when executing the associated workload.