I think this is RIGHT on topic. What better place to talk about improvements in microstutter for Nvidia cards than an Nvidia driver thread?
The talk of the 690 belongs here as this was featured to utilize frame metering. The 7970x2 (aftermarket) was mentioned because it is a multi-gpu solution that has yet to offer a smoothness akin to Nvidia's in gaming, so the comparison was being offered.
So, if you're quite finished policing the content of this thread, I'd like to get on with the discussion. Thanks.
By the way, that article translates so poorly that it isn't very certain exactly what the reviewers "context" or "message" is. At least for me.
However, this portion was quite clear to me indeed. It was on the page you linked to:
"We see very clearly that the GTX 690 SLI solution even without adaptive VSync still works better and delivers above all, a more homogeneous than the Crossfire systems vemögen to offer. The much greater differences in the individual render times per frame resulting optically a visible unrunderen course to perceptible stuttering and frame drops. We even see that the SLI solution reaches quite to the quality of a single-card solution, but without achieving quite."
From [H]
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/10/31/galaxy_geforce_gtx_660_ti_gc_3gb_sli_review
"We've beaten this topic into the ground in the past, but it has been a while since we brought it up. There is a smoothness to SLI we just can't put in words. We know for a fact that NVIDIA uses an algorithm that smoothes "frametime" in SLI. We don't know what its called, or even how it works, but we know it exists, and we know NVIDIA employs some special sauce when it comes to SLI. It is something that can only be felt, as you play a game, it is not something that shows up in a framerate over time graph. So what you see is AMD CFX winning in framerate, but not winning in frametime or overall game smoothness. When you sit down, and play games on SLI, the gaming experience just feels smoother and more responsive at lower framerates compared to AMD CrossFireX. With AMD CrossFireX we find that the faster the framerate, the smoother it feels, and we often need higher framerates with AMD CFX for it to feel the same smoothness that NVIDIA SLI feels. So, in all our testing in this article this is why we say that technically AMD 7950 CFX is faster in framerate, but in terms of the actual experience, SLI wins hands down. Gaming with SLI, especially at NV Surround resolutions, just feels better, period. While this is subjective, we are fairly sure that most of our readers would easily identify this in a "Pepsi Challenge" scenario. We are still looking for ways to illustrate this frametime advantage to you in a proper "scientific" way. As it stands now, all fully reliable avenues to us in this regard are simply too resource intensive to simply "add on" to our reviews. It is also worth expressing that some data collection methods you have seen developed elsewhere are simply not "correct," and we want to be as accurate as possible before exposing data on this topic. NVIDIA has promised upcoming tools for illustrating this, but we have yet to see anything develop. Till then, our subjective impressions are all we have to offer, but as stated above, some of these are more black and white than shades of gray when you experience these first hand."
(Salutes)
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