How to benchmark

kakarott

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So I got a new gaming laptop, which benchmark apps should I use and what are the optimal settings to use?

It there any point trying when plugged in and on battery?
 
you will probably find that gaming performance on battery is a lot less than on mains. That statement however is from my own experience with gaming laptops and the batteries inability to give enough power to the GPU so it runs in a lower power mode so that it doesn't crash the system.

You should be benchmarking with the games you want to be playing really. If you want some synthetics however i would be looking at the latest benches from 3dmark probably timespy or port royal.

for cpu i would get Cinebench R20.
 
FloppyPoppy said:
you will probably find that gaming performance on battery is a lot less than on mains. That statement however is from my own experience with gaming laptops and the batteries inability to give enough power to the GPU so it runs in a lower power mode so that it doesn't crash the system.

You should be benchmarking with the games you want to be playing really. If you want some synthetics however i would be looking at the latest benches from 3dmark probably timespy or port royal.

for cpu i would get Cinebench R20.
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Thanks, would those GPU benchmarks show fps during the test?
 
Yes,

If you want to see framerate all of the time i would download MSI afterburner and configure it's OSD.


^ Quick video on how to configure it ( it's the first video i found so can't vouch for it's quality )
 
I think benchmark apps are a really bad idea. They don't really reflect real life and all they ever seem to do is stress people out. Unless you are overclocking then they can be useful for loading your machine to the limit, I think they are best avoided.
 
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