How to diagnose my desktop video card?

[HeWhoTests]

I recently bought a "AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, 8GB, Gigabyte Gaming OC, GDDR6, 256bit, Display Port, HDMI" and ordered the company that sold me all my PC parts to assemble it and I want to test it if it's OK.

Can you suggest any software that would test if the card is OK? I don't know much about this stuff, so I guess it's performance must be tested because it looks assembled right but like I said - I'm a complete n00b at this.

[Chris Pratt]

Are you actually experiencing any issues? For the most part, if you got a picture, you did it right. Other than that, just run 3DMark or Heaven Benchmark on it, and verify that you're getting roughly the performance you'd expect.

[HeWhoTests]

welp, seems I can't delete this, sorry for the clutter!

Edited September 28, 2020 by HeWhoTests

[HeWhoTests]

12 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

Are you actually experiencing any issues? For the most part, if you got a picture, you did it right. Other than that, just run 3DMark or Heaven Benchmark on it, and verify that you're getting roughly the performance you'd expect.

Hello, Mr. Lord 

 

I haven't experienced any issues but I haven't run anything GPU-intensive, either. So I'd like to test the video card to see if it overheats or in any other way fails when within normal working parameters.

I'll check those two out, thanks!

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, HeWhoTests said:

Hello, Mr. Lord

 

I haven't experienced any issues but I haven't run anything GPU-intensive, either. So I'd like to test the video card to see if it overheats or in any other way fails when within normal working parameters.

I'll check those two out, thanks!

Please quote people by either quoting the post using the (+) mark at the bottom of the post or by @(insert name) of poster. 

 

I would use MSI Afterburner to check OSD temps/utilization and run 3DMark. If you're really concerned about stability, I use the stress tests that you find in 3DMark. 

[Moonzy]

4 minutes ago, HeWhoTests said:

Hello, Mr. Lord

 

I haven't experienced any issues but I haven't run anything GPU-intensive, either. So I'd like to test the video card to see if it overheats or in any other way fails when within normal working parameters.

I'll check those two out, thanks!

you can also run 3dmark timespy, it'll bench both CPU and GPU, and you can compare with online database to see if it's performing up to what other people are getting

you may also monitor temperature using MSI afterburner while doing tests, make sure it doesnt get too hot (over 80c is hot) for cpu and gpu

for CPU, you can run Cinebench R20 and compare it with online benchmarks, within ~5% is good enough

[MaximusAlpha]

47 minutes ago, HeWhoTests said:

I recently bought a "AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, 8GB, Gigabyte Gaming OC, GDDR6, 256bit, Display Port, HDMI" and ordered the company that sold me all my PC parts to assemble it and I want to test it if it's OK.

Can you suggest any software that would test if the card is OK? I don't know much about this stuff, so I guess it's performance must be tested because it looks assembled right but like I said - I'm a complete n00b at this.

See just see the baseline clock speed n thermal performance on google then u monitor ur card using msi afterburner software, play a game while monitoring the card 

[HeWhoTests]

1 hour ago, Chris Pratt said:

Are you actually experiencing any issues? For the most part, if you got a picture, you did it right. Other than that, just run 3DMark or Heaven Benchmark on it, and verify that you're getting roughly the performance you'd expect.

 

1 hour ago, CommanderAlex said:

Please quote people by either quoting the post using the (+) mark at the bottom of the post or by @(insert name) of poster. 

 

I would use MSI Afterburner to check OSD temps/utilization and run 3DMark. If you're really concerned about stability, I use the stress tests that you find in 3DMark. 

 

1 hour ago, Moonzy said:

you can also run 3dmark timespy, it'll bench both CPU and GPU, and you can compare with online database to see if it's performing up to what other people are getting

you may also monitor temperature using MSI afterburner while doing tests, make sure it doesnt get too hot (over 80c is hot) for cpu and gpu

for CPU, you can run Cinebench R20 and compare it with online benchmarks, within ~5% is good enough

 

uhm, it says 3Dmark basic is supposed to be free but in steam there is no free option?

Am I doing something wrong or are both 3Dmark and PCmark paid only?

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, HeWhoTests said:

uhm, it says 3Dmark basic is supposed to be free but in steam there is no free option?

Am I doing something wrong or are both 3Dmark and PCmark paid only?

3DMark you pay for, its like $20 for it on Steam but when its the Steam sales, you can usually pick it up for pretty cheap, like $5. 

[Moonzy]

3 minutes ago, HeWhoTests said:

uhm, it says 3Dmark basic is supposed to be free but in steam there is no free option?

Am I doing something wrong or are both 3Dmark and PCmark paid only?

some people say there's a demo version

i just paid for mine since i use it often

[Chris Pratt]

3 minutes ago, HeWhoTests said:

 

 

 

uhm, it says 3Dmark basic is supposed to be free but in steam there is no free option?

Am I doing something wrong or are both 3Dmark and PCmark paid only?

Here's the link on their website. I can't tell if it takes you to a free edition as I already own this in Steam

 

https://benchmarks.ul.com/3dmark#windows

[Grabhanem]

There is a free demo on steam that gives access to the more common benchmarks.