Hi,
About to swap out my graphics card and I’d like to run a before and after benchmark.
I haven’t run a benchmark in over a decade so I’m really out of touch.
Which is considered the ‘go to’ one to use these days?
It's immaterial these days. Unreal Engine 5 is a stutter fest regardless of what GPU you have. The current AAA games are woefully optimised. And they are boring.
What good is it to high and average of over 120 fps, when your 1% lows are in the 40's and 30s'.
And then you have driver issues, I'm with nVidia, and I'm stuck on old drivers as they are still the best performant.
And then you have Windows issues that cause problems.
And third party launchers.
But, I will still answer your question. Borderlands 3 is a great test of all the above. The game itself is terrible, but the benchmark in it will show all kinds of issues.
If you can get to the end of the benchmark without one stutter at some point, then congratulations, you've done well.
I fired it up the other day, and it was a stuttering mess. Turns out it was the EA Game launcher causing the issue. Deleted that, and it was 'reasonable' again. There have been some Windows updates that causes stutters. The last time I was able to get cleanly through the entire benchmark without a stutter was last year.
Don't get me wrong, not every game will stutter if Borderlands 3 does. But if Borderland 3 stutters a lot, then every game will have poor 1% lows. It shows every single issue and misconfiguration going.
If I'm getting stutters in my other games, then I use Borderlands 3 as a tool to find out what is causing it.
And it's getting tiring. It's tedious.
Between Windows, Developers, and nVidia, PC gaming has become untenable for me.
I have no interest in paying 400% increase in just a few years to build a PC that plays boring, lame, overpriced woefully optimised games by money grabbing studios who treat their staff like dirt, and their customers even worse.
In fact, I've only recently dug out my old i9 9900k with it's 2080 super, cleaned it up, and now it has pride of place in my living room, I installed a front end, and play nothing but retro games.
On that, I have 40 years of gaming. And there are games 30 years old, that look and perform better than some $100 stutter fest boring pay to win grandest. Without a doubt.
