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Websites with minimum FPS scores?
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Tom's Hardware does. Those guys do pretty good reviews.
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On minimum FPS, I don't believe this is an accurate assumption, but as a ballpark figure it should work just fine. Minimum FPS also depends on whether the card's memory is proving to be a bottleneck.
Out of curiosity, what card do you have ?
Out of curiosity, what card do you have ?
660 vanilla.
Looking at getting the 960, not as an upgrade, just want to keep up with the times and sell my 660 for something more than peanuts.
I probably won't play anything too demanding till GTA comes out on the PC. Currently play a bit of SC2 and BF3/4.
Looking at getting the 960, not as an upgrade, just want to keep up with the times and sell my 660 for something more than peanuts.
I probably won't play anything too demanding till GTA comes out on the PC. Currently play a bit of SC2 and BF3/4.
Problem with minimum FPS is that to actually quantify it in a meaningful way isn't straight forward. You could have one card that drops to say 3fps a moment after loading the game but never drops below 30fps the rest of the time and another card that only drops to 15fps minimum but is often in the 20s and actually a worse experience.
IMO a far more useful indicator would be something like % of time spent below say 30fps for any given benchmark (though even then you run the risk of smoothing out potentially problematic stutter from very high frequency bounces off the minimum fps), you could use things like 95th percentile but even that sometimes can be misleading.
IMO a far more useful indicator would be something like % of time spent below say 30fps for any given benchmark (though even then you run the risk of smoothing out potentially problematic stutter from very high frequency bounces off the minimum fps), you could use things like 95th percentile but even that sometimes can be misleading.
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Hardware Canucks tend to be good at showing minimums too
these scores do not usually represent the type of game play a fan of the game would get into ie. i always see every gpu doing huge fps on wow in them bench threads. my gpu does get huge numbers but it can drop lower than 30 while in an intense raid boss fight.
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So you want to see whether a 960 would produce decent minimum FPS numbers in modern games ?
Frankly, as others have said, these do not represent good indicators or GPU performance. A low number can mean bad coding from the game developer, a glitch on a particular scene or a small area of intense graphical stress in the reviewer's benchmarking run.
Average FPS is in my view a better benchmark, since it shows you what FPS number you will achieve in most of the game (assuming the reviewer's benchmarking run is well balanced). A high number will mean consistently high FPS counts throughout the game.
Also, Youtube is a good repository of people posting gameplay runs with Fraps turned on. You can see what numbers they achieve in normal day-to-day gameplay