3DMark

Useful tool for comparing builds, components, drivers, overclocking, undervolting and optimizations.

Not only does this provide objective benchmarking for your PC, it is also GORGEOUS visually. The demo for Time Spy is fun to watch. And Steel Nomad- better plot and acting than half the crap Hollywood puts out, in only two minutes, with no dialog.
TIP: If you're just benchmarking for yourself (like tweaking an overclock) use Custom runs with the graphics turned down. Either set the graphics to your monitor's native resolution, or (if you really want to go there) set them lower and use upscaling.

If you buy all that expensive equipment you should test it out... the best program there is..
only minus sometimes problems with steam itself, app left hanging when closed...

if you care about how your pc or laptop is running i would highly suggest picking up this game i use it often to see how my pc is doing and what i should expect out of games

great and intensive stress tests and benchmarks for overclocking enthusiasts

Half of the benchmarks are paid DLC, and these benchmarks aren't terribly useful for determining OC stability or even OC performance. I now use benchmarks from other games, such as cyberpunk 2077, to test my GPU OC's since it seems to be more reliable. You're better off putting your money towards a game with a decent built in benchmark than this.

3DMark

---{ Graphics }---

☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---

☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---

☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---

☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---

☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☑ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---

☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---

☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---

☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---

☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---

☑ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---

☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---

☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---

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Ah 3DMark... My favorite game (by play time). Great benchmarking tool for both builders and users alike!

Industry standard benchmarks, great UI, good stress tests - 9/10

every overclocking need down to PCIE speed test. Worth full price, although it goes on sale every now and again
Regular benchmarks and 20loop tests
Steel Nomad to replicate gaming sessions
Time Spy extreme for CPU and GPU 4k intensive tests
Speedway for ray tracing
Has DLSS and FSR bench tests
Ran on DX12, DX11, Vulkan tests
Great system profiler

What is there to say? Best benchmark/stress test for your GPU around. Highly recommended.

Love checking performance of different cpu and gpu combos

I have been using 3Dmark to test my VGAs and I really like the SW. I started it with a Voodoo 3D FX card as far as I remember :-)

it allows you to bench and stress test your hardware. doesnt really need to do much else.

It's very helpful for testing overclock settings.

Been a while since I used 3DMark. With the Integrated Graphics it was Neat Tool.
Without digging to deep, it looks as if the previous benefactor is no longer the owner and everything that was now purchased is now up gradable. I'll miss some of the Titles, but I'm not going too re-up, however I'm not burning the bridge,

I've used this in the past to overclock and benchmark a 1660ti and a 3060ti. It's very self explanatory software. Works well and it's very easy to make adjustments and keep track of your scores with a pen and paper while finding the best possible parameters.

It's great too if you just want to run benchmarks to see how your hardware setup compares to others.

Great for testing new memory profiles or overclocking configs for stability and results!

A great tool to maximize the performance of your hardware while also ensuring you won't run into crashes when in the middle of a gaming session, pulling you out of the magic and world you're enjoying.

Hardware monitoring was disabled. Results without hardware monitoring data are not eligible for the 3DMark Hall of Fame.

Sort your software out...

Great for benchmarking and affordable

A really useful tool to help you dial in your new hardware. Definitely recommended it if you are trying to overclock and stress test your system.

In my opinion best and reliable benchmark for your pc. Even with the free version perfectly right for it's job.

I mean, its literally the benchmarks of benchmarks. perfect to attack any part of your pc.

Pretty handy for overclocking and stability testing. I guess because they use a bunch of technologies that really stress the CPU and GPU. Time Spy was great in forcing a crash when my CPU overclock was too high, and Firestrike and Speeday helped for the GPU.

idk it's just good benchmarks and stress-tests. idk how you could leave a negative review on this, it does what it's supposed to.

Great piece of software, helps with standardized measurement of the system performance between PC/SW tweaks

Works well, does what its advertised to do and it also receives frequent new content.

We're deeply due for a new update, OG 3D?Mark used to be cool. Now it's boring and late to the game.

10/10 best stress tester and bench marking tool. Top 1% PC GANG!

Seems like they are putting prices tags on a lot of things, even things that I'm pretty sure were free before. Not recommended for regular folks that aren't doing anything overly serious with there machines.

It's a 3dmark, modern day equivalent of 'watching paint dry'
You pay for validation and bragging rights, what else lol

Fun for those that love to overclock. My favourite tool for testing stability on gpu overclocks as it pushes the stability fairly hard and will crash if it's unstable at all which is a good thing because if it won't crash on this almost everything else never crashes.

had lots of fun running benchmarks on all the different gpu's ive had over the years

I have to pay extra to be able to skip the damn timespy demo... if this was a free app, alright, fair enough, but it isn't.

if you need to benchmark your PC this software works wonders

Neat program to test out your hardwares capabilities. Nice feature at the end of every test, giving you an estimate on how many FPS you could get in other games.

It's like the gold standard for synthetic benchmarks. There should be a friend leaderboard feature though that you can use to flex on your steam friendslist.

Useful as against using artificial benchmarks and stressing my PC beyond any Game I might run.

It's a benchmark. What do you want more? Great characters, best story ever. :)

Great benchmark tool

The one complaint is there is no way to separate the overclocked machine scores with the non-overclocked machines, if you just want to see if your default setup is running about the same as people with the same setup.

3DMark is an outstanding benchmarking tool for PC enthusiasts and gamers seeking to test and optimize their system's performance. It provides a comprehensive suite of tests tailored for GPUs, CPUs, and overall system capabilities, ensuring accurate results for real-world gaming scenarios. With its intuitive interface and impressive visual demonstrations, 3DMark makes performance evaluation accessible even for less tech-savvy users. Additionally, its detailed reporting helps identify potential bottlenecks and assess upgrades, making it an essential tool for anyone looking to push their PC to its limits. Its regular updates ensure compatibility with the latest hardware and cutting-edge graphics technologies.

works most of the time, stresses my pc so much it turns into a space heater

3DMark is so buggy I have never actually been able to run a benchmark successfully. All of these hours were spent idling waiting for a benchmark to start, staring at "Gathering system info", or just using my PC while 3D Mark for some reason is still detected as running by steam.

Great software for benchmark testing and ensuring new builds are up to par!

Great to be able to see the improvements in your system over time

Great for testing your PC's ability for various hardware profiles. CPU / GPU / overall.

It's a great way to make sure your PC is running correctly after a new build.

It is very useful to benchmark my gaming PC hardware against other similar products. The DLCs are cheap, but hopefully there are more free benchmarks in the future.

2/5. The benchmarks are actually just fine -- a little clunky, but I trust that they're taking the steps necessary for reliable comparisons. But for a paid casual/enthusiast benchmark product, it has some missing features that are obnoxious and confusing. Ultimately it works, but I feel annoyed when I use it, and that is not what I want from a tool. I'll provide my list of critical missing features and you can decide for yourself whether they are important to you.

• You can't run multiple benchmarks sequentially. That means if I want to run an RT benchmark, a benchmark I run all ALL my machines, and the SSD benchmark, I have to run each one individually, wait for it to finish, then run the next one and so on. It really makes me want to not run many benchmarks or explore their different characteristics--not what I want from my benchmarking software.
  
• You can't run the benchmarks on multiple PCs simultaneously. When I purchased this software, I obviously wanted to run it on all my PCs. It's already an onerous process since you need to click each benchmark individually. Now imagine running 4 benchmarks on 4 different computers; I now have a 16 step process I have to wait through instead of setting everything up and letting it run.
  
[*]You can't save results. It DOES upload the results to 3DMark where you can view them -- if it didn't, I would have just returned the software as useless. But you can't save an XML/PDF/whatever file and load it locally to compare different machines. And if 3DMark ever stops supporting something or goes down, your history will be gone forever. Again, this just isn't what I expect from a paid enthusiast tool.

In conclusion, the experience of using this tool feels overwhelmingly like they're trying to upsell me...but to what? The only other version is enterprise, 30x+ more expensive. Only then can I automate, run multiple tests, and run them concurrently. That decision is baffling to me.

I'll keep the tool because frankly there aren't many options in this space, but if you thought this would save you a bunch of time over using individual free tools... it probably won't. I'd recommend just cobbling together your own process.