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4 performance metrics that are more important than average frames per second

Measuring PC performance can be tricky business. While you can get a halfway decent picture of performance by measuring average frames-per-second and calling it a day, you're missing out on some key ...
ExtremeTech

After almost 20 years, GPU benchmarking is moving past frames per second

In gaming, frame rate -- measured in frames per second, or fps-- is king. That's been true for the 12 years I've been reviewing computer hardware and then some. Frames per second has ruled the roost, ...
TweakTown

Scientists create camera that can take 156 trillion frames per second

A team of researchers has decided to answer that question by creating a new scientific camera called SCARF, which stands for Swept-Coded Aperture Real-time Femtophotography. The creation of this ...
SlashGear

The Myth About FPS And Human Vision You Need To Stop Believing

There's no need for a better monitor; your eyes can't see more than 60 frames per second (FPS) anyway. You may have heard this misconception or a variation of it on gaming forums or while talking to ...
sciencex

Capturing reality at 326,000 frames per second

Does a galloping horse ever have its four hooves off the ground? That question was the source of a significant controversy in the late 19th century. Eadweard Muybridge settled the matter in 1878 with ...