Does Higher FPS = More Stutter? Framerate vs. Frame Pacing

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[spacecy]

No matter how many fps you are getting, from 30 up to 240... if you get frametime spikes, it will ruin the gaming experience by causing stutter. It is extremely annoying. So frametime is equally (if not more) important than framerates.

[wilfredomartinez]

Wow. A tech Youtuber who is actually good at games.

[gglegoggle]

Very good explanation about frame time deviations being smaller at higher framerates despite larger swings (percentage wise).

[osgrov]

Very good explanation. This is a video I'm going to link to everyone who asks me to help them out with stuttering.

[ToneRetroGaming]

Shame this channel showed up in my suggestions so late. Great content here.

[FreddyBoyBoy]

that alienware monitor with a Dell stand, perfect!

[RepsUp]

Your videos are aesthetically pleasing

[byronfranek]

Very nice analysis!
BTW, capping the fps below the max refresh rate of gsynch is required in order to remain within the gsync window and avoid tearing.

[kedavra]

This channel has great quality content. Keep up the work.

[amaurytoloza]

This topic is often misunderstood, by not capping your framerate, you can also go GPU bound, that clogs the render queue, and introduces a massive input lag penalty. This is a relatively recent discovery and the reason of Nvidia Reflex development. So for competitive gaming, going GPU bound is actually not good in terms of input lag. FPS capping avoids that.

[ryans]

I actually like videos like this in general, I want to see more videos dealing with what the actual differences between graphics settings are.

[JJW]

Excellent video man, very well put together and thank you for the Riva Tuner recommendation. Gained a new subscriber!

[goldy]

nothing said in this video matters when the human eye can only perceive 5200RPM

[gianlucaangeli]

Awesome video, i really like this kind of "in depth" video about gaming. that's a really underrated channel

[AllThatJazOfficial]

Great video. Very informative and highly accurate. Also a tip for the less noligable, if you use freesync/gsync you always want your fps capped just under your monitors max refresh rate.

[tchnm]

The Topic is even more complex. There are also differences in using certain APIs like DX11, DX12, Vulkan. Then there is also Vsync, Freesync, Adaptive Sync and GSync. You can disable Vsync in game, but enable vsync in the Driver itself to have a smooth Gsnyc experience. But still, some Monitors vary in refresh rates, so you Always get out of Gsync range, even though you have Vsync enabled in the Driver. So you have to cap you FPS in the games *.cfg 3 FPS below your refreshrate. Then there is FastSync… ; Blurbusters did an Epic Job on this Topic. It's so complex...I love it.
You also have to Keep in mind what your RAM does, approaching the cpu Limit.

Then we have the issue with SMT (like Hyper Threading). Threads vs Cores. Some games stutter; using HT enabled.

Other People simply buy a midrange Computer and game on 60Hz ^^.

[shzammpatapon]

Finally, I have been trying to explain this to my brother but he won't believe me. Thank you very much for the great content!

[sarudesu]

I actually wanted to know this, so thank you for that

[aiyu]

Not just the processor, the RAM speed also have impact with frame pacing, specially having top of the line processor but still getting inconsistent frame pacing, try to get a faster memory, it might help with it.

[alessandrobiagiotti]

damn! What a video, so interesting and helpful