Benchmarking Programs

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I'm thinking of doing a video card upgrade and want to be able to
measure/quantify the improvement.

What benchmarking programs do people use to gauge the effectiveness of
hardware upgrades? Any free ones?

Thanks.
 
Carlos said:
I'm thinking of doing a video card upgrade and want to be able to
measure/quantify the improvement.
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What benchmarking programs do people use to gauge the effectiveness of
hardware upgrades? Any free ones?
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Benchmark what you do a lot that is machine intensive.

If the software won't time it for you then get a stopwatch
and find some common intensive task that you do a lot and
that you can find a way to get good precise times on.

Time it before and after you do the upgrade.
 
Assuming that your interests are game related,

http://www.futuremark.com/download/

The 3DMark series are synthetic benchmarks, but they may be interesting for
relative comparisons. The free versions have some limitations, but they
still perform a reasonable suite of tests.

There's also a sort of one-stop shopping:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=6

Some of the files there are old. It might be nice if the dates were on the
page I provided the link for, but you'll have to click on each one to check
the dates.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
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