Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
You can do some research --- generally, average and min track to an extent. Though I don't disagree completely, average FPS does not show the whole story. But neither does minimum by itself.

Average is just a statistical representation of the population that it is sampling. If the CPUs were not important, than the statistical average would not be affected and the mean of the population would average to become statistically equivalent. That is not true here, the average FPS is certainly showing a response with the power of the CPU (hence the reason for the CPU scaling article). Thus, average is not meaningless overall, it does allow one to conclude which CPU supports the GPU better. Average goes higher as both min and max goes higher.



Jack
I agree with this, good post

But one thing is clear, if the min fps is above 30, smoothness is guaranteed.

No sky high avg or max fps numbers can guarantee smoothness, it may still be very choppy during some parts.

With that said, fps graphs like the ones @ [H] are very useful, in conjunction with min and avg numbers.