Best games for Stressing/Benchmarking GPUs

[I am a PC]

What are the best games for benchmarking the raw max power of todays fastest GPUs ?

 

[Swolern]

BF3, Metro 2033, Batman AC, Crysis 1 & 2, 3D Mark11

 

[DelroyMonjo]

BF3, SkyrimV.
Just look here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7870-review-benchmark,3148.html

 

[RussK1]

What are the best games for benchmarking the raw max power of todays fastest GPUs ?

MY Top 5:

#1 Shogun 2 easily... even has different benchmarks through Steam.

#2 Crysis 2 (with patches) comes in a distant second place.

#3 Metro 2033

#4 Witcher 2

#5 BF3


http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/386

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-gaming-graphics-charts/3DMark11-Enthusiast,2660.html

 

[I am a PC]

MY Top 5:

#1 Shogun 2 easily... even has different benchmarks through Steam.

#2 Crysis 2 (with patches) comes in a distant second place.

#3 Metro 2033

#4 Witcher 2

#5 BF3


http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/386

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-gaming-graphics-charts/3DMark11-Enthusiast,2660.html

Some not bad games there I would say for benchmarking but I don't agree with Metro 2033 because it is bug riddled and Crysis 2 because Crysis 1 is more demanding.

 

[I am a PC]

BF3, Metro 2033, Batman AC, Crysis 1 & 2, 3D Mark11

I am inclined to stay away from Metro 2033 because it is bug riddled, and Batman AC because it is also broken in DX11, and Crysis 2 because Crysis 1 is more demanding game to run. Also I am inclined to not run any Physx games as viable benchmarks in respect to keeping the playing field level. Thanx for the input guys and I would like to get as many games as possible on a solid Benchmarking list and submit it to TH as there new benchmarking suite cause there current one sucks ass. TAHANX

 

[marshal11]

why would you want to benchmark games? use 3Dmark11, 3dmark vantage, and unigine heaven 2.5. but if you really want to do it with games, bf3, crysis 1 and skyrim.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Farmville's pretty hardcore don't forget
Moto

 

[cyansnow]

In terms of performance eating I'd say:
Crysis 1
BF3
Shogun 2
Starcraft 2 (I'd say ALMOST tied with shogun)
Crysis 2
The Witcher 2

 

[I am a PC]

why would you want to benchmark games? use 3Dmark11, 3dmark vantage, and unigine heaven 2.5. but if you really want to do it with games, bf3, crysis 1 and skyrim.

3Dmark11 is not accurate and favors Nvidia even when it is slower in game therefor real world in game testing is key. Do you play 3Dmark ? cause I don't.

 

[I am a PC]

In terms of performance eating I'd say:
Crysis 1
BF3
Shogun 2
Starcraft 2 (I'd say ALMOST tied with shogun)
Crysis 2
The Witcher 2

I would say Starcraft is a no go for reason being if favors Intel and Nvidia hardware.

 

[RussK1]

[flash=640,360]http://www.youtube.com/v/WfroL0T4dyk?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0[/flash]

 

[I am a PC]

[flash=640,360]http://www.youtube.com/v/WfroL0T4dyk?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0[/flash]

See I am not one to support EA games and Crysis 1 looks better and is a more demanding title boy did they ever take a step back to glean money off the console kiddies for Crysis 2 in the end PC gamers lost.

 

[noob2222]

Metro 2033 has its own built in benchmark also, you can disable physix as well as set it up to test any settings. Its also a full multi-core game so its very GPU dependent.

Showgun 2 did pretty well on high, 60% on one core, and 40-50% across the other 7. Maxed out on ultra, it pushed one core to 100% but strangely enough was a higher fps average.

Starcraft 2 has a tendency to run on as few cores as possible, runs better across 3 cores, but still tries to max out one before the others, especially when more cores are present. All truth, its one game that punishes you for having multiple cores.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/08/18/how-many-cpu-cores-does-starcraft-2-use/2

If your testing GPUs, its best not to use games that are cpu bound, SC2, Skyrim...

Civ V is an interesting one, but its buggy with crossfire, won't crossfire when zoomed all the way out on a map, but does when zoomed in. As such the built in benchmarks won't run in CF even though it does increase the cpu usage.

BF 3 is definately a good one to use for gpu testing.

AvP, Hawx 2, Dirt 3, R.E. 5 are also less bound to multi core cpu and more for gpu testing.

 

[I am a PC]

Metro 2033 has its own built in benchmark also, you can disable physix as well as set it up to test any settings. Its also a full multi-core game so its very GPU dependent.

Showgun 2 did pretty well on high, 60% on one core, and 40-50% across the other 7. Maxed out on ultra, it pushed one core to 100% but strangely enough was a higher fps average.

Starcraft 2 has a tendency to run on as few cores as possible, runs better across 3 cores, but still tries to max out one before the others, especially when more cores are present. All truth, its one game that punishes you for having multiple cores.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/08/18/how-many-cpu-cores-does-starcraft-2-use/2

If your testing GPUs, its best not to use games that are cpu bound, SC2, Skyrim...

Civ V is an interesting one, but its buggy with crossfire, won't crossfire when zoomed all the way out on a map, but does when zoomed in. As such the built in benchmarks won't run in CF even though it does increase the cpu usage.

BF 3 is definately a good one to use for gpu testing.

AvP, Hawx 2, Dirt 3, R.E. 5 are also less bound to multi core cpu and more for gpu testing.

I would like to stay away from CPU benchmarks like Starcraft II and also Physx games because that means Nvidia has dabbled with the game engine which mitigates the unbiased purity of a truly sound and as = benchmarking suite as possible.

 

[noob2222]

Game devs basically allowed nvidia's physx as a "disable when not needed" option. Even though Metro is nvidia's physx game, it actually runs better on AMD hardware

 

[RussK1]

Loads of benchmarks here~

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Benchmarks-&-Demo's_c6.html

 

[I am a PC]

Game devs basically allowed nvidia's physx as a "disable when not needed" option. Even though Metro is nvidia's physx game, it actually runs better on AMD hardware

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/graphics/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680/05_metro.png

The fact remains AMD cannot do nvidiaPhysx therefore Metro 2033 is not a fair comparison just like all Physx games.

 

[Swolern]

The fact remains AMD cannot do nvidiaPhysx therefore Metro 2033 is not a fair comparison just like all Physx games.

You can disable PhysX in all of its games then run benchmarks = fair.