Frametime
Also searched as: frametime · frame time
What it means
How long each individual frame took to draw, measured in milliseconds. FPS is the yearly average; frametime is the heartbeat monitor.
More detail
Smoothness is about consistency, not just the average — a steady line of 7 ms frames feels great, while a line that keeps spiking to 30 ms feels like stutter even at the same average FPS. A single tall spike is one visible hitch. This is the graph serious testers actually watch.
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