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As one of the major tech youtubers Linus must start looking at frame times in his GPU reviews. Pure FPS is just not relevant anymore. Look at what PCPer and the tech report do, Frame Time evaluation is far much more of a representation of smooth, quality gameplay than just overall average FPS.

 

Linus in order to remain relevant when reviewing GPUs you must start doing this otherwise your GPU reviews are worthless. 

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u call his reveiws worthless. shots fired!! (bang bang)

 

No shots fired intended, I know it sounds harsh but in terms of helping with a purchasing decision yes worthless is unfortunately what they are, average FPS is simply not a valid metric on its own to determine the quality of a card. I would much rather have a card that produces more consistent frame times than a card with the best average FPS, the gameplay experience will be far more superior. 

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Yes.

This other review site I follow has been doing it for ages

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More like @Slick :P

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No shots fired intended, I know it sounds harsh but in terms of helping with a purchasing decision yes worthless is unfortunately what they are, average FPS is simply not a valid metric on its own to determine the quality of a card. I would much rather have a card that produces more consistent frame times than a card with the best average FPS. 

u cud just say his reveiw needs a touch up. :c

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More like @Slick :P

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While this is a good idea you also have to take into account that he is much more directed at the main stream viewers than PCPer is. Think about what the average viewer of LTT would want not just the super techy one. I do think that they should try to do written reviews which it would make sense to include those numbers in. 

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I think the required hardware is too expenive :( 

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I think I recall Linus explaining that they only those reviews to compare graphics cards to each other, therefore it isn't really of importance.

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A #firepole would add value to his GPU reviews as well!

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I think I recall Linus explaining that they only those reviews to compare graphics cards to each other, therefore it isn't really of importance.

 

This is just not the case, frame time analysis tells you how good a card is at frame pacing games on their own, If it was down to the raw FPS average from Fraps which is what Linus does, or the observed average with frame time percentile figure, Id pick the latter every time. To remain relevant in reviewing graphics cards LTT must start doing this at some point. 

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 Once you move to an Adaptive Sync Monitor the FPS means Alot less then it did before.

 

  Because some games you can get 120+ fps and you will still see stutter on a non Gsync or Freesync monitor.

 

  But on the monitors which do adaptive refresh its always perfectly smooth and it dont matter if its 60 FPS or 120+ FPS its still the same smooth play.

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This is just not the case, frame time analysis tells you how good a card is at frame pacing games on their own, If it was down to the raw FPS average from Fraps which is what Linus does, or the observed average with frame time percentile figure, Id pick the latter every time. To remain relevant in reviewing graphics cards LTT must start doing this at some point. 

I actually thought of that while writing my comment, just wanted somebody to confirm. Thanks :)

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