Best free benchmarking tests for any component

[anodraeus]

I'm looking for the recommended testing software for most components, including the memory, cpu, and gpu testing. also wouldn't mind knowing what linus and the team uses, if any of them are free as well.

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, anodraeus said:

I'm looking for the recommended testing software for most components, including the memory, cpu, and gpu testing. also wouldn't mind knowing what linus and the team uses, if any of them are free as well.

SSDLife for SSD life (duh, right?)

CPU-Z

GPU-Z for IDing CPUs and GPUs and stress testing.

Memtestx86+ for RAM (the industry standard)

 

[Guest]

Cpuid HWmonitor is great for looking system stats, temperatures for example.

 

Then for gaming tests there is the Unigine Heaven and Unigine Superposition, Linus uses those.

 

For CPU absolutely Cinebench and cpu-z.

[TVwazhere]

Welcome to the forums

 

Most GPU benchmarks are used with Unigin Heaven, Fire strike (varios versions of this depending on what you're aiming for) and Prime95. All of these are free

 

For CPU, Cinebench and Blender are often the Go To for CPU benchmarks. (Blender might use the GPU too, I cant remember)

 

For stress tests, many people use Aida64, but this is not a free software. However, it can  put load on all components IIRC including storage and memory and monitor temperatures and frequencies, and also show thermal throttling figures.

[AskTJ]

userbenchmark.com

[porina]

Prime95 29.x will maximally stress Intel CPUs especially in AVX. Smaller FFT size will emphasise core stress. Large FFT will also stress IMC and ram more, but ease on the cores a bit. If your CPU has AVX offset, you can use this to set it. Ryzen has a weak AVX implemenation so this is not such a great test on that.

 

Realbench - a blend of various tests run at the same time. I have found it can detect instability in cases where P95 doesn't, since it exercises different parts of the CPU.

 

OCCT - not have much personal experience on this, but it seems like a well thought out tool with many settings for CPU stress.

 

Cinebench R15 doesn't seem bad as a load either... but it can't be run continuously. It is a starting point for finding ball park stability when overclocking. If you can run a few times without a long gap between, at least you're not obviously unstable and you get a quick indication of performance e.g. if scores drop you might be throttling.

[LogicalDrm]

3DMark is oddly yet to be mentioned. It has been one of cornerstones for gamers benchmarking for years. Unigines software are good, same with RealBench. You should also look at some free game benchmarks, like Final Fantasy XV and Star Swarm (same dev as with Ashes of Singularity). For drives there's CrystalDiskMark. For RAM there really isn't anything free like that. Passmark has paid tool, and I guess PCMark would be for that too. Memtest86 is mainly for stress testing and error checking, not benchmarking.