[SOLVED] Whats the latest GPU stress test?

[Samduhman]

I used to use the Heaven Benchmark and just let it play through a few times if I didn't see any video anomalies then that was good enough and the GPUs never game me an issue. Is Heaven benchmark still a good test or is there something better I can use?

I bought a ASUS 4070ti over the weekend and this morning before leaving for work I opened email, and a few other windows. The whites were not white they were sort of a very light tan cream color. I just shut everything down and went to work. Now it's all back to normal. The only difference was my system did go into sleep mode over night.

Anywho, I'd just like to do a good stress test to see if the GPU holds up.

 

[punkncat]

Do you have "night mode" enabled or anything which takes out blues to avoid eye fatigue in the monitor or settings?

 

[Avro Arrow]

I used to use the Heaven Benchmark and just let it play through a few times if I didn't see any video anomalies then that was good enough and the GPUs never game me an issue. Is Heaven benchmark still a good test or is there something better I can use?

Heaven is still ok for measuring performance but it's only a DX10 benchmark. Unigine has released two benchmarks since Heaven. In 2013, the DX11 benchmark called Unigine Valley was released and in 2017, they released the new DX12 benchmark called Unigine Superposition. To date, Superposition is the most strenuous benchmark released by Unigine. You can also use benchmarks like Firestrike and TimeSpy by 3DMark but you have to pay to get the full features of the 3DMark suites.

Anywho, I'd just like to do a good stress test to see if the GPU holds up.

If I were you, I'd run Unigine Superposition because it's free to use for your purposes. Not only is it a world-class GPU benchmark, it's also really cool to watch. It's kinda creepy actually... but it's amazingly well done.

 

[Samduhman]

Do you have "night mode" enabled or anything which takes out blues to avoid eye fatigue in the monitor or settings?

BOOM!, that was it. I didn't even know that existed but I found it earlier tonight. I'm not even sure how it got turned on other than maybe the Alienware Command Center had automatically installed during a system update.

Now I just need to run a few stress tests. I'll try Unigine Superpostion. Thanks for the recommendation Avro Arrow.

 

[hotaru.hino]

3DMark has a free version that includes Time Spy for DX12 testing and Fire Strike for DX11 testing. OCCT is also useful for stability testing. If you want to mess around with ray tracing, there's Attic demo

FurMark is still a thing if you want to throw on an unrealistic scenario.

 

[punkncat]

BOOM!, that was it. I didn't even know that existed but I found it earlier tonight. I'm not even sure how it got turned on other than maybe the Alienware Command Center had automatically installed during a system update.

Glad it got resolved.

 

[Samduhman]

I'll just run all the benchmark/stress tests. I had forgotten about FurMark and it was just resently updated. Thanks for the advice everyone.

 

[Colif]

I had missed Valley somehow. I thought my CPU was bottleneck on GPU but I see it can still get to 100% utilisation. CPU doing very little during valley

 

[Avro Arrow]

BOOM!, that was it. I didn't even know that existed but I found it earlier tonight. I'm not even sure how it got turned on other than maybe the Alienware Command Center had automatically installed during a system update.

Now I just need to run a few stress tests. I'll try Unigine Superpostion. Thanks for the recommendation Avro Arrow.

Glad to be of service!