The phrase "dictate the performance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when speaking of something that influences or controls the quality or success of a performance. For example, "The team's morale began to drop when their coaches started to dictate the performance."
"It wasn't my fault or Rory's, it is just the way the balls go sometimes that dictate the performance.
Correlation and cross-correlation properties of codes dictate the performance of a multiuser communication system at high SNR [26].
Inhibition of growth rather than lysis was found to dictate the performance of plant cell culture in the bioreactor.
GDFT phase functions are optimally designed in order to reduce inter carrier interference (ICI) and inter-symbol interference (ISI) that dictate the performance of a multiuser channel.
If the core is made from foam, the strength of the core material and the debond strength at the core skin interface almost entirely dictate the performance of structural sandwich composites especially under flexure.
A survey and analysis of the theoretical and experimental observations available to date demonstrated that the under-coordinated atoms in the surface skin of 2-3 atomic layers dictate the performance of nanostructures yet atoms of the interior remain as they are in the bulk counterpart.
A school's score on those indicators dictates the "performance level" it falls into.
The performance of this compound optic often dictates the performance of the entire experimental system.
Similar to Schottky diodes, the number of stages directly dictates the performance efficiency in the task of designing a custom CMOS voltage multiplier.
It is quite straightforward to notice that in the two latter cases, the algorithm deciding the value of δ(s) or c(s) dictates the performance of the code.
Our study uncovers that the interaction between the RuO2 nanoparticles and the anatase and rutile TiO2 phase during the annealing step dictates the performance of the Ru/TiO2 methanation catalysts.
