What are we using for vid card benchmarking nowadays?

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Rob94hawk

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Just wanted to see what this Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 2500u laptop can do in it's basic form.

3dmark?
 
cybereality said:
Superposition is a good one, somewhat recent.

I still like Catzilla.
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I like Superposition a lot, yet I feel a lot of reviewers don't seem to use it..

What I don't get is why Heaven is still used. Seems a bit outdated now no?
 
Depends on what your purpose is. If you want to tune performance for actually playing games, I'd use whatever game I intended to play.
Auer said:
I like Superposition a lot, yet I feel a lot of reviewers don't seem to use it..

What I don't get is why Heaven is still used. Seems a bit outdated now no?
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Heaven is still used because it scales really well with hardware (including multiple GPUs) and it tests DirectX 11. It's also a common thing among competitive overclockers, since it gameifies making the system faster. 3DMark and SuperPosition are similar. I like 3DMark the best, since it has built-in reporting and comparison tools.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a better test, IMHO, since it's an actual game, although the last release I tried to use would crash at the end of the benchmark. The game itself worked fine, though.
Ashes of the Singularity is another that is theoretically an actual game, and scales well with hardware, so you can tell when changes actually make the system faster or slower. It's mostly just a benchmark. I don't think anyone has ever actually played the game.

In my humble opinion, though, there's no real substitute for just tuning the system for the actual game you intend to play, using FRAPS or FCAT if the game doesn't have built-in tools for measuring frame time.
 
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