Stress testing software differences

[TheXDS]

(Hey, if Luke is reading, I guess this would actually make an interesting video for The Workshop...)

Well, what do you know, AIDA64 and Prime95 tacke the CPU rather differently. Not susprises at all.
I was doing some overclocking one night and did run a few stress passes with Prime95 on my CPU. After that, I got to do some testing with AIDA64 (because it allowed me to do some stress testing of several things at once) and notticed how the temperatures were different between both programs. Prime95 hit my CPU considerably harder than AIDA64, like... Hard.

I'm running an AMD FX-8120 dinosaur, at 4.25 GHz, idling at 45 C. Prime95 brought it to around 75 C. and, AIDA64, did  "only" reach 68 C.

As of now, I only tested those 2 programs. do you have any suggestions on other software that I could use to Stress my CPU?
I also did a similar experiment to stress test my GTX 970. And, didn't really nottce much difference first. I wanted to generate as much heat as possible, and hit every transistor inside that poor chip. So, I fired up Furmark, alongside GPU-z stress test, as well as Valley, As well as several test at once from MSI afterburner and EVGA, and AIDA64, and even put Blender to render a complex surface with complex shaders. It was literally a mess.
My GPU didn't really throttle, but all of the different workloads caused the GPU to output less heat (probably because some the many workloads were lighter, so the heavier ones would take less GPU clocks per second to be performed)

[Enderman]

prime95 is a pretty unrealistic torture test that uses parts of the CPU which normal programs dont use

 

so even something like video editing or mining or stuff like that which pins your CPU at 100% doesnt get anywhere near the temps that prime95 makes it get to

[TheXDS]

But, why isn't AIDA64 doing the same, just for sake of testing?

[Cyracus]

9 minutes ago, TheXDS said:

But, why isn't AIDA64 doing the same, just for sake of testing?

There's no need, P95 is over the top overkill. Why make a stress test push way harder than any real world use? All it might do is convince you that your cpu isn't stable by crashing it when no regular program would