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Techreport has a very nice article discussing the graphic card performance in BF3. They have a very nice method of judging performance:
Today's mid-range GPUs in Battlefield 3 - The Tech Report - Page 1
So although AMD and Nvidia cards would be spewing similar average FPS, spikes on AMD cards were higher in certain missions, while Nvidia was having issues in certain scenes. A very interesting concept, which is not limited to just BF3. Check out the earlier article detailing the method.
Now, frame rates like those above only tell part of the story. Graphing individual frame rendering times, as we did in our article Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking, gives us a much better sense of overall smoothness and playability. In a perfect world, we'd want cards to spit out frames in about 16.7 miliseconds each (which would mean 60 frames rendered per second). Just as importantly, we'd want to ensure consistently low frame rendering times. Even momentary spikes in frame rendering times can translate into perceived choppiness—and overall FPS numbers can't capture that.
Today's mid-range GPUs in Battlefield 3 - The Tech Report - Page 1
So although AMD and Nvidia cards would be spewing similar average FPS, spikes on AMD cards were higher in certain missions, while Nvidia was having issues in certain scenes. A very interesting concept, which is not limited to just BF3. Check out the earlier article detailing the method.