Benchmark your GPU like Maximum PC
YOU’LL NEED THIS
A PC OR LAPTOP WITH A DISCRETE GRAPHICS CARD
A screen, mouse, keyboard, and internet connection. Some money to spend on benchmarking software.
LAST ISSUE, we showed you how to benchmark your CPU just like the system-testing impresarios here on Maximum PC. Never let it be said that we can’t follow a theme; this time, we’ll be running through the tests we use to benchmark GPUs, for both builds and reviews.
Unlike our CPU benchmarking process, some of this software isn’t available for free. Free trials are available for certain programs, but GPU testing ideally uses multiple gaming benchmarks, which could cost you. We’ll go through some of the games we use for testing later on, but if you don’t have any of those you may want to look into whether any of the titles you already own include a benchmark. Plenty of games have one nestled away in the graphical settings to let you double-check you’re getting optimal performance from your machine.
It’s worth noting that the following benchmarking tests are ones we primarily use for testing on discrete GPUs, not integrated
