- Jul 22, 2015
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Sorry to break it to you, but most, if not all GPU reviews are completely and utterly useless and flawed.
Do you know how these reviewers measure fps? They start the game, load to a saved game of a certain point and then run in a straight line for 30 seconds or 1 minute. In fact many times even the line is not straight enough across play throughs, and the "better" reviewers repeat the test 2-4 times to make sure its accurate.
Or they just use a built-in test if there is one, in fact most actually just start the game from the beginning and record the first 30 second or 1 minute from the game, walking a straight line!
This is completely and utterly flawed and wrong. It can't, won't and is impossible to show the REAL world performance.
A REAL test would have to involve modding the game, loading to a certain point and having it automatically play out for at least 5 minutes in order to measure the REAL minimum frames, REAL average frames, REAL maximum frames and the 99th percentile and other stuff.
Optimally you'd want the game to run for 20 minutes in order to gauge how it works when the card is hotter and the memory is filled and the system is stressed out.
So next time you look at a review, remember that it is completely useless for REAL WORLD performance, its just like an advertisement showing basically the worthless case scenario.
Do you know how these reviewers measure fps? They start the game, load to a saved game of a certain point and then run in a straight line for 30 seconds or 1 minute. In fact many times even the line is not straight enough across play throughs, and the "better" reviewers repeat the test 2-4 times to make sure its accurate.
Or they just use a built-in test if there is one, in fact most actually just start the game from the beginning and record the first 30 second or 1 minute from the game, walking a straight line!
This is completely and utterly flawed and wrong. It can't, won't and is impossible to show the REAL world performance.
A REAL test would have to involve modding the game, loading to a certain point and having it automatically play out for at least 5 minutes in order to measure the REAL minimum frames, REAL average frames, REAL maximum frames and the 99th percentile and other stuff.
Optimally you'd want the game to run for 20 minutes in order to gauge how it works when the card is hotter and the memory is filled and the system is stressed out.
So next time you look at a review, remember that it is completely useless for REAL WORLD performance, its just like an advertisement showing basically the worthless case scenario.
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