21 Programs to Analyze and Benchmark Your Hardware
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I don't think you realize that Prime95 doesn't even start. It doesn't come to the part to start stressing the CPU. I've done tons of things to my CPU, started all kinds of CPU stress tests and rarely any of them made my cooler come to 50% of its full speed. That's because I have excellent cooling.
Prime95 didn't even come to the part to start stressing my CPU. It just died at startup. They've got bug in the software. I'm not the only one that was unable to run the app. There are many other users. At least the competing apps (like Fritz Benchmark or wPrime) don't die so stupidly. Those apps can't use all the cores (if you have more than 4) but at least they work within those limitations.
These benchmark tests are mainly useful in checking whether a rig is running OK and whether config changes have improved or reduced performance. Most of these tools use a regression formula to produce scores using a synthetic test. At least of two of them have recently revised their regression formulas because the results didn't correspond with actual relative performance. In the real world of IT the benchmarks that are used always imitate the production apps that are going to be run. Applied to gaming this means that buying decisions should only be made on real game benchmarks and nothing else. But there is a major flaw in the way the usual game benchmarks are done. The flaw is that cpu and gpu loads aren't measured. Yet load data is just as important as speed data.
Perhaps the main paradox in benchmarking cpus for gaming is the heavy use of non-gaming benchmark tools.
Perhaps the main paradox in benchmarking cpus for gaming is the heavy use of non-gaming benchmark tools.
grumblguts
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SPECviewperf
RhodiumLC
RealBench 2.2
LuxMark
Cryengine_BaronHaussmann
ffxiv-shadowbringers-bench FAVORS NVIDIA...
Catzilla
These you posted
Unigine Superposition AND Basemark GPU both favour Nvidia. especially Basemark
RhodiumLC
RealBench 2.2
LuxMark
Cryengine_BaronHaussmann
ffxiv-shadowbringers-bench FAVORS NVIDIA...
Catzilla
These you posted
Unigine Superposition AND Basemark GPU both favour Nvidia. especially Basemark
texasrattler
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@neeyik I see you used a 9700k. Thats what I have. Have you noticed any high cpu usage with that during gaming?
I have used some of those programs, everything seems fine. Nothing out of ordinary. Even tried overclocking to 5ghz. No crashing or anything. But with games like Modern Warfare/Warzone and Apex I see cpu usage go as high as 100% during game. Downside is I can't watch streams/videos at the same time. Have you seen any issues like that or experienced anything?
I have read all kinds of things on the 9700K and there's plenty of info that talks about high usage but nothing I've tried helps. Task manager also shows modern warfare is using like 7000MB of memory with usage going to 90%. I have 16gb in dual channel. Using a msi mobo z390. Corsair h100i pro cooler, windows 10 pro 2004, Corsair rm 850x gold, gtx 1070.
I have used some of those programs, everything seems fine. Nothing out of ordinary. Even tried overclocking to 5ghz. No crashing or anything. But with games like Modern Warfare/Warzone and Apex I see cpu usage go as high as 100% during game. Downside is I can't watch streams/videos at the same time. Have you seen any issues like that or experienced anything?
I have read all kinds of things on the 9700K and there's plenty of info that talks about high usage but nothing I've tried helps. Task manager also shows modern warfare is using like 7000MB of memory with usage going to 90%. I have 16gb in dual channel. Using a msi mobo z390. Corsair h100i pro cooler, windows 10 pro 2004, Corsair rm 850x gold, gtx 1070.
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brucek
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I resemble that remark ;-)
I don't know if it exists, but my ideal tool would be a simple app that auto-identifies my hardware, and runs just enough tests to identify if there was a setup or configuration error that is costing me significant performance. Maybe with an option to run extended testing after that to check for a stability or thermal issue. Even better if I could set it to automatically run once a week to catch a future screw up or regression.
Nobina
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For hardware info HWiNFO is pretty much all you need. As for benchmarks, if I'm interested how a GPU/CPU performs in a certain game I'll just look at a YouTube video of that GPU/CPU running that game. It is the most accurate way of seeing how it performs.
geogan
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Basemark results seem like garbage to me.
I did a Basemark GPU 1.2 High DX12 run on my "GIGABYTE GTX 1070 XTREME Gaming" and got score 6509 :
53.73 min
91.32 max
65.09 avg
While another almost identical using lower "GIGABYTE GTX 1070 G1 Gaming" got score 16276 :
0.43 min
572.57 max
162.77 avg
Those results make no sense. No way the 4K GPU run got 572FPS on that system.
Mine: https://powerboard.basemark.com/benchmark-result/837605
His: https://powerboard.basemark.com/benchmark-result/820654
I did a Basemark GPU 1.2 High DX12 run on my "GIGABYTE GTX 1070 XTREME Gaming" and got score 6509 :
53.73 min
91.32 max
65.09 avg
While another almost identical using lower "GIGABYTE GTX 1070 G1 Gaming" got score 16276 :
0.43 min
572.57 max
162.77 avg
Those results make no sense. No way the 4K GPU run got 572FPS on that system.
Mine: https://powerboard.basemark.com/benchmark-result/837605
His: https://powerboard.basemark.com/benchmark-result/820654
kmo911
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Userbenchmark.com said it all https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/33914056. allready benchmarked and 78 th % for pc gaming. when 11 th 12 th comes out I must beat this 10 th low end pc gameing laptop alot. so youre 4k goes over 500 fps are a nice one. LIKE
top end best amd pcie 4.0 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm03/654668...munqBVWPkRqB6_r6rS4nr6zRxB-HQAGq7qX7D_31O8adA so waiting for rx 6000 to go by this little lovley one too. then pcie 5.0 would arrive and so on.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserR...79XDVSdDuo82WQyqSfFiSnJKkh_ZMWxZDY9hCNy7zoh6Q over 100 with better cpu gpu nvme ssd pcie 4.0-6.0 into the future.
top end best amd pcie 4.0 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm03/654668...munqBVWPkRqB6_r6rS4nr6zRxB-HQAGq7qX7D_31O8adA so waiting for rx 6000 to go by this little lovley one too. then pcie 5.0 would arrive and so on.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserR...79XDVSdDuo82WQyqSfFiSnJKkh_ZMWxZDY9hCNy7zoh6Q over 100 with better cpu gpu nvme ssd pcie 4.0-6.0 into the future.
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Not especially. The thing to bear in mind with CPU usage figures is that the system can't tell the difference between whether a thread is active or stalled: both will be reported as 'usage'. So a high percentage value doesn't necessarily mean the processor is being worked all the time and if there are other aspects, either within hardware or software, that's holding up threads from being completed, then one will be left with the impression that it's the CPU that's at fault.
texasrattler
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Anything I could do to improve cpu usage or am I just screwed? Ive tried everything and then some. I keep getting told by most I just need to replace the processor.
My situation might be because I game at 1440p or 4K on the highest settings, with G-Sync on a 60 Hz monitor, so the performance bottleneck is nearly always going to be shifted off the CPU. But if one is wanting higher frame rates at lower resolutions, for example, then the CPU is always going to be hit a lot harder.
You could, perhaps, look into using dual channel, dual rank RAM, or using nvme drives, if you're not already doing so - these will help reduce the amount of time threads are stalled for, which in turn will lower the CPU usage.
texasrattler
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yea already using all that. I can go to 60hz but that defeats why I bought a msi 27 monitor 144hz 1080p. I just cant figure out why the game is using so much cpu usage and memory.
Alfatawi Mendel
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I think there was a reason Userbenchmark wasn't included in the article.
The reason is that it's pretty much BS.
Hey why do we PC people not pick a benchmark program and post the results any more?
Nintenboy01
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I'm surprised the extensive benchmarks in AIDA64 weren't mentioned, it can even tell you the TFLOPS of your GPU and CPU. Another good cross-platform bench is GFXBench.
My PC kept launching programs at random times during the day and I couldn't tell which app was doing this. I just bought a new PC and it's happening again which makes me think it's an app I've installed. Do you know if any of these apps above will audit for this like a black box on a plane, where I can go back to see what triggered the apps to launch?
The only app you need for this is Windows itself. Press Win key + X, then select Event Viewer. The Windows logs for Applications and System contain a huge amount of detail -- too much, really, for the general user.
Probably better to start doing some process auditing, instead. Press start, then type run, and then press enter. In run command window, type in secpol.msc and then enter.
You'll then see the Local Security Policy window open up. In the left-hand menu, open up Local Policies, then select Audit Policy. In the right-hand window, double-click on Audit process tracking. Check the Success box and then click on OK.
The log of the audit can be seen using Event Viewer: Windows Logs, Security. Be warned that the logs get very big, very quickly, so only run it for as long you need to. Disable the auditing by unchecking the Success box mentioned before.
It's also worth firing up Task Manager (Win key + X, Task Manager) and then going to the Startup tab. Disable everything that you don't need or recognise - do this by right-clicking on the entry, and selecting Disable, or just clicking the Disable button in the bottom right-hand corner of the Task Manager window.
Thanks!
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