Steam's new performance monitor is actually worth using over some of the alternatives
Valve continues to pile more great features into Steam
Valve has just given Steam's integrated FPS counter a serious upgrade. Performance monitoring is quite straight-forward, and many applications today can handle measuring simple metrics like framerate, CPU and GPU usage, as well as power usage. So what exactly has Valve done to make Steam's new performance monitor worth using over the alternatives? Besides being integrated neatly into the Steam overlay, it can easily detect and measure a technology that has become exceedingly common in modern AAA gaming, and has some neat ways of presenting commonly measured performance metrics.
