If you're not dropping below 30 FPS during games, you're going to have a nice and smooth gaming experience. There are three numbers we're looking out for when it comes to our benchmarks.ģ0 FPS - It's the minimum number we aim for when it comes to games. While many may argue that the human eye can't see over 24 FPS or 30 FPS, any true gamer will tell you that as we climb higher in Frames Per Seconds (FPS), the overall gameplay feels smoother. When we benchmark our video cards and look at the graphs, we aim to get to a certain level of FPS which we consider playable. Let's get started! The FPS Numbers Explained Let's find out what the extra clocks do for the card today. We saw the HD 7970 GHz Edition perform strong in our testing the other day, but it continued to struggle at times against both the GTX 680 and GTX 670. All these cards are important today when it comes to being compared against each other.

Of course we've got our overclocked HD 7970 GHz Edition card and we'll be looking at that against the original HD 7970 and the GHz Edition model when it's running at its stock speeds.Īlong with those cards, though, we've got the GTX 670 and three GTX 680s in the form of a 2GB and 4GB one running at stock and a pre-overclocked 2GB model from Gainward in the form of the Phantom.

Heaven benchmark advanced scope