Game benchmarks

PiKe · 28 Oct 2018 at 20:11

If you were comparing several different systems, what games, demo's or synthetics would be most useful and give meaningful numbers currently?

I don't want to have to purchase games just to be able to run benchmarks unless they're really cheap.

Thanks.

LuckyBenski · 29 Oct 2018 at 00:06

3DMark ones are popular. Firestrike and Timespy.

Unigine Heaven and Valley also.

Adam123 · 29 Oct 2018 at 02:32

Realbench full system
Cinebench & XTU CPU based

mattyfez · 29 Oct 2018 at 09:37

There are free some standalone game benchmarks here
https://www.guru3d.com/files-categories/benchmarks-demos.html

PiKe · 29 Oct 2018 at 20:19

Thanks, does Fortnite have a benchmark feature or do people just run afterburner with 1% and 0.1% frame rates enabled in the overlay?

mattyfez · 29 Oct 2018 at 20:49

No idea but
Cinebench cpu test
Realbench
3d mark

Are probably the most easily comparable and widely used.. Although they don't translate directly into more FPS in a given game.

When looking at FPS in actual game benches, you only want to be looking at average and more importantly minimum FPS.

Yaayuh! · 1 Nov 2018 at 08:54

We need some new DX11 benchmarks. Firestrike and Heaven are so old now.

Would be nice to have a new one where you can choose the API.

ubersonic · 7 Nov 2018 at 21:39

LuckyBenski said:
3DMark ones are popular. Firestrike and Timespy.

Unigine Heaven and Valley also.

Personally I would say the Unigine benchmarks (Heaven, Valley, Superposition) are the best now and 3DMarks should be considered as alternates as these days they focus too much on (or attributie too much of their score to) the CPU. What I mean is, historical versions of 3DMark used to be about how good a card is or how much power the user tweaked out of it, but with the current version of 3DMark it's more about how much the user spent on their CPU.