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Re:Apple M2 Ultra Isn't Faster Than Last Gen AMD&Intel Deskt... by Retric on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:58AM (#36278239)
There’s nothing inherently mathematically special about 1% or 0.1%, you can also use 0.0042% or 0.00069% which highlights this kind of extreme outliers more.

Benchmarking sites use 1% or 0.1% because they better highlight the commodity PC hardware rather than the games bugs and architecture.

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Re:Apple M2 Ultra Isn't Faster Than Last Gen AMD&Intel Deskt... by sudosysgen on Sunday June 11, 2023 @09:54AM (#36281378)
That's not true. You can't use 0.0042% because then you don't have enough frames to be statistically significant without running for a very long time. It's also true that a frame pacing issue that is so rare that it isn't even impacting the 0.1% frame time isn't going to be noticeable, really.

These benchmarks are controlled for game bugs and architecture by simply averaging over ~40-50 games, on repeatable loops.

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