Simple stress test

[chrismox]

Is there a simple piece of software that will put my graphics card under stress for testing purposes? Thanks.

 

[Kirby Wurm]

If it has a 16 pin PCIe connector then pull it out just a little bit. The poor card will be sweating bullets.

 

[FlyingFish]

Furmark, the end.

 

[chrismox]

Fiddling with the wiring should do the job. I’ll prepare a fire extinguisher.

 

[chrismox]

Furmark, the end.

Ah, that rings a bell. Many thanks.

 

[Freddie1980]

Ah, that rings a bell. Many thanks.

You can use this browser test if you want. It's fully customisable.

https://webglsamples.org/aquarium/aquarium.html

 

[Threepwood]

Ah, that rings a bell. Many thanks.

just be careful, it is very easy to get distracted, and forget that it is running, and furmark creates a lot of heat, really stressing the card, easy to break one, esp if you are overclocking it

 

[chrismox]

You can use this browser test if you want. It's fully customisable.

https://webglsamples.org/aquarium/aquarium.html

Brilliant, thanks.

 

[chrismox]

just be careful, it is very easy to get distracted, and forget that it is running, and furmark creates a lot of heat, really stressing the card, easy to break one, esp if you are overclocking it

Thanks for the tip. It’s not overclocked, but something in my system is causing issues (black screen after some light gaming, PC has to be reset).

I figured I’d check the card using a simple test first before I look into what else might be causing my problems.

 

[Kirby Wurm]

Thanks for the tip. It’s not overclocked, but something in my system is causing issues (black screen after some light gaming, PC has to be reset).

I figured I’d check the card using a simple test first before I look into what else might be causing my problems.

Hmm, what's the card?

 

[chrismox]

An old GeForce GTX 1080. It’s in my desk PC which is rarely used for gaming. I fired up a game earlier and the screen went black after a few minutes. That repeated a few times. I switched to the onboard GPU and haven’t had any issues since, so my suspicion is that the 1080 has an issue, hence why I want to do some testing.

 

[iron_monkey]

Unigine heaven or superposition

 

[heatonpkmassive]

Unigine heaven or superposition

That, Furmark unnecessarily stresses a card and is just not needed.

 

[Tommy_Here]

Agreed on Heaven, I’d run it in windowed mode with GPUz or/and MSI Afterburner open to monitor temps, fan speed etc..

 

[PrincessFrosty]

That, Furmark unnecessarily stresses a card and is just not needed.

Yeah Furmark has been contentious for ages, if you want as absolutely as close to 100% your GPU as possible then Furmark is the best shot, but realistically that'll stress the card a bit more than real world games will, sometimes leading to crashes on stock cards.

Heavens a bit older and probably not as good for RT testing unless it had some update since I last used it, the more up to date ones tend to be with 3DMark which you can get on steam and I believe have benchmarks that stress Ray Tracing and so RT cores that simple raster might not.

If you search the steam store for "benchmark" there's actually a lot of standalone ones some of which are from real games, and most are free.

 

[Blackwhite]

Furmark it is

 

[chrismox]

Thanks all, I'll see how I get on...

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Furmark it is

Yep stress test / Power/ heat virus, good in the winter

 

[FlyingFish]

It's one thing focusing on the gpu, but there is the system as a whole that really should be seen for how to test, if you have any type of instability.

I find that some modern games do a really good job of stressing the system as a whole, and are way better at proving stability, especially when you're having the gpu, vram, cpu, ram, power system stressed and heated for an hour or so gaming session.

Wukong, and Elden Ring (for example) are good for this, they can bring even high spec rigs down to a crawl, with RT enabled.

 

[mattyfez]

Keep it simple... I run 3 benches and if I don't crash, hit silly voltages or get too hot I consider my entire system stable.

Cinebench all core
Asus real bench
3d mark