[throwaway17_17]

What are you describing as a frame update? I am trying to be as generous as possible to your comment and thereby assuming there is a disconnect between my understanding of ‘frame update’ and yours. Genuinely curious, because that term as I am familiar with it means the entire time allotted to generating and rendering a single frame for display. If that’s what you meant, you are asserting that a ‘modern game’ is typically running at 333 fps. I am typically using the term ‘modern game’ to describe newly releasing AAA games nearly all of which struggle on many hardware configurations to achieve a steady 60 fps (which is 16 ms per frame).

[adastra22]

e-sport competitive games target either 128Hz or 320Hz update frequency. Two rules of thumb: first if you want to actually get 60Hz every frame (e.g. on a console where 1st party validation cares about this more), then you attempt 120Hz so jitter only brings you down to 60Hz. Second, a bit more than half of your time is spent doing other things. So the amount of time you actually have to spend on world-update and/or render logic is only about half of your allocated time to start with. That's two independent factors of two there. I would have targeted 90Hz to start with, which gets you to about 3ms of actual time per frame.