Best benchmark tool for gpu

[Kingslayer Kyle]

Hey, does anyone know the best free benchmark tool for a GPU for testing the stability and seeing if it works properly

[glenalz81]

Unigene Heaven and 3D Mark Firestrike.

 

For a proper burn MSI Kombustor.

[Princess Luna]

4 hours ago, kyle_987 said:

Hey, does anyone know the best free benchmark tool for a GPU for testing the stability and seeing if it works properly

Heaven and Superposition.

 

1 minute ago, James Evens said:

stability: Fuzzy Donut of Flaming Death aka. furmark

That's extremely wrong, FurMark is USELESS as it throws a COMPLETELY unrealistic workload on the GPU, that can not be reproduced by real life applications at all, not even close. It is so demanding that if your cooling is insufficient or voltage/power limits are too high you will be seriously risking killing the card, just go on google you'll see countless cases of FurMark killing perfectly fine GPUs specially AMD or nVidia up to Maxwell.

 

Not to mention if the whole point is to find a stable overclock for gaming to extract the most performance out of the card using benchmarks that mimic demanding gaming settings like Heaven and Superposition makes so much more sense once to be able to achieve "full stability on FurMark" you'll be running at much lower clocks than it could actually be running games at stable.

[Princess Luna]

5 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Isn't this what stability is about? surviving the worst case

If you define stability like this just run some games you will play for a few hours and see if it crashes.

No, stability is simple being stable/working without issues which will happen at stock settings 99% of the time, when you apply an overclock on top of that you want the system to perform better while remaining stable on what you do.

 

If you just gonna game then that's what it has to remain stable at while giving the performance boost, OP has a Maxwell card, using FurMark opposed to any other mainstream benchmark might even downclock his card through GPU Boost 2.0 (losing performance) in order to be stable at a task he will never use.

 

See it this way, you want it to be stable at your worst case yes... but one that you will use not a synthetic benchmark with no true purpose but making your GPU sweat and cry.

 

5 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Btw. If FurMark can kill your card you should rethink if your overclock make sense or the manufacture forgot about overheating and over current protection.

The only thing poorly made or not well thought about was whoever coded FurMark in the first place who managed such a pointless application which only manages to be good at being so unrealistically difficult for the GPU to run consistently.

[Princess Luna]

7 minutes ago, James Evens said:

@Princess Cadence what is your opinion about Prime95? again a tool which simulate pointless workloads 

Prime95 and FurMark are nothing alike, Prime95 was well made to simulate worse case scenarios Realistically and is totally fine to base pushing to the edge CPU overclocks with it as CPU if over-stressed during multi-tasking, not 1 specific software workload can run into stability.

 

You shouldn't really mix CPU and GPU as if its the same thing, it's different hardware with different functionality and mechanics, I'm not trying to argue with you that far... if you feel FurMark is justified be it because you use it yourself or not, I'm not here to lecture any one in depth nor approach unrelated subjects to the OP like CPU overclocking.

 

OP wants a benchmark to test out how far he can overclock for his games, the literally best benchmark for that end on a GTX 970 is Heaven and that's it, if you're still decided to disagree with me and feel OP should use FurMark instead you can make your point.

 

Cheers.