GPU Benchmarking Methods Investigated: Fact vs. Fiction

[Stukov]

+1.

People don't want to sit there for 2 minutes looking at linear graphs and charts. They want to see the result and see it quick.



You do know what median means right? Middle. Median of what? Median of FPS? What? The Mode is the most.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median

Median is the "middle" of a series of numbers. So if you have 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...2 is the median number. Having the Median number would allow you to know on which side of the average you will get most of the time. Average mean can be heavily skewed by massive jumps in data (or FPS here) or massive drops.

Let's say its 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 100 the average mean would be 18, however the mean would 1-2 (1.5). In terms of FPS, if you have a lot of an average of 60, a minimum of 20, and a median of 65 will tell you that getting 20 FPS is not very likely, but if the median was 30, it would tell you that you end up lower than 60 quite often, but there are some high peaks skewing it higher.