What's a good PC Benchmark program?

[Idaho]

I'm about to put in a new videocard and thought I'd run a benchmark before/after. 

 

Any suggestions?  

 

 

[Gambit21]

Cinebench is what I use.

I'm a 3D artist so it's aprops for me. 

It's still a good open GL benchmark program for anyone though.

[1./ZG1_ElHadji]

I have always used 3dmark for gaming PC benchmarking. The free version does the job well enough.

 

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmark-vantage

[Sokol1]

Flight simulators, if they run  with steady 60 FPS or above the system are fine.

[dendroid]

Cinebench is what I use.

I'm a 3D artist so it's aprops for me. 

It's still a good open GL benchmark program for anyone though.

 

It is not a good choice, as you have mentioned, it is a rendering tool. You should choose some graphically demanding PC game like Crysis 3 and compare your results with benchmarks.

[-=PHX=-Satch]

For GPU Benchmarks:

 

Unigine Heaven

Unigine Valley

[Potenz]

try any of this ones, valley and heaven are the heaviest ones

 

http://unigine.com/

[John_Banks]

Shall i deactivate vsync while benching or doesn't it matter at all? I have also disabled hyperthreading. Does the benchmark benefit from that?

Edited November 10, 2014 by John_Banks

[Potenz]

that's debatable, with vsync you will get the results that you will actually see when gamming, and without it's the raw performance numbers

your card will get, run both with and without it

[Mastermariner]

I use MSI afterburner, good or bad I don't know since its all that I use. It can, among many other things, display data of the hardware on the screen as you play the game. Also great for over clocking.

Master

[1./JG42Nephris]

WinRar ;-)

[-TBC-AeroAce]

The simple answer is that there are many and they each test or forget or become accustom to certain things. I find the Heaven benchmark to be quite honest/reliable(to base desisions on) and easy to use. But im sure there are reasons not to use it.

 

Do some research about them on youtube and elsewhere 

 

Prime95 is also a good one to run in respect to this game as it is CPU intensive. Just check for errors or overheating and throttling. 

 

PS I have run this on a low and high card

 

for me on both balanced gives the best performance spread over MP and SP

Edited November 12, 2014 by AeroAce

[John_Banks]

I tested with and without vsync. There is quite a difference of cause as expected. But how can i compare my score with that from others? Is there a database or testresult page of some sort?

[Ala13_Kike]

For GPU Benchmarks:

 

Unigine Heaven

Unigine Valley

+1

But the best test it's to play without fraps or similar.

Test for me only are valid to check your PC before/after or one hardware change