Intel upgrades PresentMon for the Frame Generation age

Intel upgrades PresentMon with new “Smoothness Metrics”

If you haven’t heard of PresentMon, know that it is the cornerstone of modern PC benchmarking. CapframeX is based on PresentMon. Nvidia’s FrameView App is based on PresentMon. Even AMD’s Open Capture Analysis Tool (AMD OCAT) is based on PresentMon. PresentMon is an Intel tool, and Intel has upgraded it for the age of Frame Generation.

Intel has upgraded PresentMon with “Frame Type Differentiation”. This enables PresentMon to distinguish between “real” and AI-generated frames. Below, you can see how it can display the “FPS App” metric alongside “FPS-Presents”. This means that PresentMon can measure a game’s base framerate alongside its framerate when Frame Generation is enabled.

Since PresentMon is the basis of most modern PC benchmarking tools, it is likely that Intel’s new changes to PresentMon will change how PC benchmarking data is measured and displayed. This new version of PresentMon can also present percentile data for all metrics and new “animation error” data.

Alongside this new version of PresentMon, Intel also unveiled XeSS 3. With XeSS 3, Intel has added Multi-Frame Generation to its XeSS technology suite. This provides gamers with access to X2, X3, and X4 multipliers when utilising XeSS Frame Generation.

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