This is a small and simple guide which will tell you about benchmarking a gpu. What is benchmarking and how does it works? The first two common questions in your mind if you are new to this topic. Benchmark is a process of identifying performance and flaws of hardware by putting it to extreme test. It helps you to judge what performance the hardware can give you. It is simply like test driving the newly made car on rough tracks. At the end it being evaluated what performance delivered and damages occurred. Benchmarking is somewhat a similar process. I want you to understand that Benchmarking and Overclocking are two different processes. Benchmarking is usually getting mixed with Overclocking. The clear difference between them is, benchmarking work on the base of specially made software to judge the highest performance of hardware, while Overclocking is using special software to increase the frequency of hardware. There are negative effects of Overclocking, but not of benchmarking. It is a kind of analysis study done by tester who uses benchmarking tools and checkout what maximum the hardware give. This is a good practice. I am not telling you that perform benchmark and on the base of report generated purchase a new gpu and leave the old one. No. The methods describe in this guide, will also help you to understand various benchmark reports published on the web every time when a new gpu is released. It tells us that what the GPU can do and many of us simply ignore it. While it is not a matter of ignorance. I am not only stating the process but also giving you a reference of tools that can do the best.
Before that it is necessary to get use to benchmarking. It can be done with any hardware, a cpu, gpu, ram, etc. Mostly graphic cards are tested more. Benchmarking programs themselves are equipped with a tool that can do this process until it can give you a final result. Benchmarking is also used for various comparison processes between hardware and system architectures. Sometime it is not easy to identify the performance of a system or hardware simply looking at the specification. Anyhow the manufacturer tries to add up the best on the hardware and releases in the market. But from our end we can test and advice others whether they want to buy or not or whether this hardware is suitable for your system or not. So in a sense you can share your experience with others also. Benchmark results also tell you that does the performance of hardware will be better or not. Everyone loves to avoid slower systems and we always want to stay updated with the more recent hardware. Sometime we do not gain a good performance on our existing gpu even after buying a new one or updating drives. Why that so. There are number of reasons. First he game is equipped with some kind of extra graphic technology which the gpu does not have. Second your gpu is low on bus width which avoids fast data transfer. The old architecture is responsible for this. Third, your systems power requirements are high and your power supply is not able to full fill it. This entire factor altogether can affect the game performance. Now to find out the best you cannot keep changing hardware. That will be costly process. For that purpose we can your benchmarking tool.
How Benchmark works?
A benchmark tool is designed to test a system at highest limit. It simply generates a fake environment and forces the hardware to respond on it. On that basis the tool generates a report. It works on a specially created workload program. It is found that benchmarking tools has given much better results. Here you just do not need to be geek to understand the various specs details. I am giving a standard overview on performing a Benchmark test. There is an easy way of doing this. You can do that in Windows also. Just right click on My Computer > Properties and go in Performance Index. There you can evaluate the score under gaming and it will show your current system ratings. You must remember that the result generated by Benchmark tools is mostly on the base of prior database updated on web. You also do not need multiple systems to perform the test. Tools like PassMark PerformanceTest give you nice report on Benchmarking. This is important in parts of a graphic card to find out that the gpu you are going to buy will support every video game or not. It does not matter what specs it carry.
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