No matter how fancy new consoles get, PCs are still on the cutting edge of gaming tech. They allow for greater graphical fidelity and motion smoothing than PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X can fathom. However, these advantages have their own downsides as well: your frame rate is likely to jump around more than on a typical console. In a particularly demanding scene, you might get 45 frames per second, while easier-to-render scenes can jump all the way into the hundreds. That much variance can introduce annoyances like stuttering and screen tearing, or—if you turn on Vertical Sync—added input lag.