Automatic Detection of Optimal Compute Unit Partitioning

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing an automatic partition optimization operation on a processor, comprising: monitoring compute unit usage of the processor over time; determining whether an application executing on the processor comprises a lightly threaded application or a heavily threaded application; and, automatically adjusting compute unit partitioning of the processor based upon whether the application executing on the processor comprises the lightly threaded application or the heavily threaded application.