The Spin off Smoothness Thread

[Final8ty]

But its what happens, just look at the max/min fps for Phenom/C2, they are sometimes huge on the C2 and not as high on the Phenom. Meaning that Phenom is limiting the graphics card eralier then a C2.

If smoothness in games steams from that huge discrepancies between max and min fps, then its possible to optain the same smoothness on both systems with a simple checkbox and all that discussion was pointless.

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Its the difference between the max & min that matters on a system and not how high they are on a system as to the exercise that people are trying to do here & you can only sensibly measure with Vsync off as that is an artificial limitation, how high is irrelevant as that is not the exercise.
Hypothetically speaking If the AMD is pushing 150max 125min fps & the intel is pushing 250max 175min fps then the AMD is producing more constant fps & is statistically smoother the perception is another matter.
If the difference between max and min did not matter but just how high they were then there would be no need for Vsync to exist, your LCD would not try to output at a constant 60hz & fluctuate from 70-100hz at random as higher is better right? & films would not be 25fps or 30fps but fluctuate from 50-100fps at random because higher is more important than consistency?.


Application multi tasking is also important to many & the smoothness in how it handles them.