Benchmark
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What it means
A repeatable test that measures real performance so you can compare before and after a change. It's the difference between knowing and guessing.
More detail
Good benchmarking watches average FPS plus 1% and 0.1% lows and the frametime graph — not just the big number — and runs the same scene the same way each time. Tools like PresentMon, CapFrameX, and FrameView do this honestly. The whole point: change one thing, measure it, keep it only if the numbers actually moved past the noise.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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