Increasing 1% & 0.1% Lows

[Dreadnought]

I'm curious about what makes 1% & 0.1% lows fps higher.

To increase the stability & the smoothness, because an average of 60fps with 50fps (1%) and 40fps (0.1%) is a lot better than an average of 90fps with 30fps (1%) and 10fps (0.1%)

Is it the core count? core speed? IPC? GPU? amount of RAM?

What affects 1% & 0.1% lows the most? (to increase the stability)

 

[Firewrath9]

Vram, and if sli, a physX card.

[Princess Luna]

CPU followed by memory(frequency/timing) is the most important hardware for 1% / 0.1% and Frametime.

 

The best single thread possible aligned to sufficient amount of threads the more smooth and stable your experience will be as it can feed your GPU consistently and fast enough with data to keep drawing as many frames as it can.

[Dreadnought]

11 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

CPU followed by memory(frequency/timing) is the most important hardware for 1% / 0.1% and Frametime.

 

The best single thread possible aligned to sufficient amount of threads the more smooth and stable your experience will be as it can feed your GPU consistently and fast enough with data to keep drawing as many frames as it can.

So Ryzen 3 2200G with 8GB 3200MHz CL15 DDR4 will be more stable than i5 3570 with 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 with the same GPU?

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Dreadnought said:

So Ryzen 3 2200G with 8GB 3200MHz CL15 DDR4 will be more stable than i5 3570 with 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 with the same GPU?

Maybe, it should be a bit better but not a whole lot because the 2200G is still just a 4c/4t just like the i5 3570, and since all games are pretty much at least capable of fully utilizing 4 threads that means you're not leaving any room for system and background stuff.

 

Ideally you'd want the Ryzen 5 line up since it will either have the exra threads of SMT (4c/8t) or the 6 cores ones.

 

The CPU Frequency matters, the higher the better obviously and Intel has the advantage of Ring Bus being much lower latency so more single thread performance than Ryzen line up has with Infinity Fabric.

[Dreadnought]

3 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

So Ryzen 3 2200G with 8GB 3200MHz CL15 DDR4 will be more stable than i5 3570 with 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 with the same GPU?

I forgot to mention that i5 3570 has way better single thread performance than R3 2200G

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

I forgot to mention that i5 3570 has way better single thread performance than R3 2200G

Actually it has the same IPC per se, only differences come from frequency and as mentioned the 'thing' that links cores together, Intel uses Ring Bus which is much superior to Infinity Fabric used on Ryzen, this is what keeps Intel having such a great advatange on single thread performance comparing Coffee Lake to Ryzen+ as IPC is almost on pair already.