good (free) programs for stress testing GPU's?

[ChingChang]

I know a lot of people use 3dmark (I do too sometimes), but you can't have it run continuously in a loop or even minimize to check temps.


nvidia demos do a great job of heating the GPU. Some even get it hotter than running 3dmark06.. and they run continuously. Lots of different demos give you options for any nvidia card..


I haven't used ATItool for awhile. The newest version supports nvidia cards? All I'd really be interested in is the artifact scanning feature. How would this compare to nvidia demos or 3dmark? Is this the best thing for ATI cards?


What would be good for testing intel graphics? Is there something good that will run on ATI/nVidia/Intel/etc?


and is there a program that will check temps of newer ATI or nVidia cards? (specifically programs that will do ATI AND nVidia)

 

[pxc]

I like rthdribl. It doesn't verify the image, but artifacts are pretty obvious. Just stretch the window to give the GPU a bigger workout.

ATITool has become pretty worthless for anything but simple testing. It crashes, doesn't catch many errors and once it breaks you pretty much have to reboot, even on ATI cards.

 

[MrFace]

I like rthdribl. It doesn't verify the image, but artifacts are pretty obvious. Just stretch the window to give the GPU a bigger workout.

ATITool has become pretty worthless for anything but simple testing. It crashes, doesn't catch many errors and once it breaks you pretty much have to reboot, even on ATI cards.

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My ATITool seems to catch artifacts pretty damn well for me.

 

[rahavsmt]

I like rthdribl. It doesn't verify the image, but artifacts are pretty obvious. Just stretch the window to give the GPU a bigger workout.

ATITool has become pretty worthless for anything but simple testing. It crashes, doesn't catch many errors and once it breaks you pretty much have to reboot, even on ATI cards.

I have used ATITool with my last card 7900gt and my 8800gts and my system is 100% stable when ATITool doesnt crash for at least 1 hour. Yeah the process is simple as you oc and stress test and back down the oc when artifact start to occurs. So what exactly is a better test and more complicated test than ATITool?

 

[Zinn]

RTHDRIBL was my choice. It's pretty, it's free, and it makes the GPU super hot.

 

[quadnad]

RTHDRIBL and ATiTool are the two tools I use for stress testing the GPU.

 

[ChingChang]

thanks I'll have to check out RTHDRIBL. Looks pretty good. A tech I worked with used it once but I didn't know the name or if it was even good... was on an old computer that didn't support HDR so it looked crappy

Today I ran ATITool on a laptop that has a GeForce GO 400 or something.. good to know it works on older nvidia stuff

 

[SeetheSeer]

I use ATI Tool artifact scanning, but the even on the most conservative setting, it doesn't catch the minor artifacts, so you have to find them yourself. Not that big of a deal, as I'm not aware of any other GPU stress test program that will even try to find artifacts.