How to benchmark your gaming PCask pc gamer. Ask PC Gamer is our weekly question and advice column. Have a burning question about the smoke coming out of your PC Send your problems to letterspcgamer. Dear PC Gamer, Im doing some upgrades, and maybe overclocking, and I want a good before and after snapshot. Ive never benchmarked anything before, so what tools should I use Adrian A. Hey AdrianNintendo Co., Ltd. Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto. Nintendo is one of the worlds largest video game. It is important to make sure that your network connection is working properly in order to achieve the fastest file download or transfer speed and a stable connection. Ask PC Gamer is our weekly question and advice column. Have a burning question about the smoke coming out of your PC Send your problems to letterspcgamer. Dear. Features Support of DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11 and OpenGL Comprehensive use of tessellation technology Advanced SSAO screenspace ambient occlusion. Heaven Benchmark Advanced Lessons' title='Heaven Benchmark Advanced Lessons' />Im assuming youre after 3. Universal Current Sensor Ppt. Delaware State University Upward Bound Program Programs here. D graphics benchmarks, not specifics like CPU stress tests or HDD transfer speeds, and thats simple. There are two methods for game benchmarking synthetic tests and real world tests. Synthetic benchmarks are programs designed specifically for benchmarking, and usually offer the most detailed results. A few popular programs are Catzilla, Furmark, Unigine Heaven, and 3. DMark, which is available on Steam. We use Heaven 4. 0 for a lot of our benchmarks, but 3. DMark is also a good package it includes multiple benchmarks for different types of systems, assigns scores for graphics and physics processing, and compares your results to those of other users to show you how your rig compares. Small Basic File Writeline. You can try out basic versions of 3. DMark and 3. DMark 1. I also recommend trying Catzlilla the basic version is cheap, and if you get the slightly more expensive advanced version which is on Steam, it conveniently makes upgrade and configuration recommendations, and can test whether or not your system can run certain games. If youre just entertaining your curiosity, you dont need to buy anything, but having fully featured benchmark tool is great if youre doing serious overclocking and want to track your GPU temps at 4. K, for instance. Real world benchmarks test real games, which you can do by recording your framerate during some consistent in engine scene with FRAPS or other software the tricky way, or by using a benchmarking tool included with a game. Heaven Benchmark Advanced LessonYour results will generally be your minimum, average, and maximum framerates. Quite a few games come with benchmark toolshere are some off the top of my head Bio. Shock Infinite. Metro 2. Metro Last Light. Shadow of Mordor. Thief. Tomb Raider. Sleeping Dogs. Batman Arkham City. Dirt 3. HAWX 2. Crysis 3. Grand Theft Auto 5 run the benchmark in game after completing the prologueBecause no one game or benchmark tool can tell you everything about a systems performance, we generally do several different benchmarks when testing a GPU. One processor might be great in Tomb Raider, for instance, but struggle in another game. Again, if you just want to see the results of an upgrade, theres no need to go overboard. You should follow some best practices, though. Start by making sure your OS and drivers are up to date. Before each benchmark, reboot your PC and give it some time to settle. Next, turn off anti virus software, close anything that automatically updates, and, well, basically just kill any background software you can safely kill. Futuremark recommends waiting another 1. I wouldnt worry about that in your case. Run the benchmark, and dont touch anything while its going. Now do it over a couple more times. If you want to be scientific about it, reboot again and go back through the whole process from therejust make sure the environment is the same for every test. You wont necessarily get the exact same results each time, but they should be very close. If one score is way off from the others, something interfered with the test, so try again until you have a consistent set of results. And there you are If youre making significant upgrades, you should see a clear difference in benchmark results. Good luck with the new components, and dont set anything on fire.