Free and Cheap Software for Benchmarking like a Pro
Whether you're a power user or a novice, there has never been a better time to learn about benchmarking. Some people enjoy exploring the cutting-edge 3d engines employed in some gaming benchmarks, while others take their custom-painted, neon-lit rigs into competitions for speed just as serious as their four-wheeled hot rod counterparts on real racetracks. Just about every major tech blog or hardware site uses one or more of the suites in this roundup. Despite the power, they're easy to use.
Futuremark Corporation 3DMark06 Advanced
3DMark06 is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX9 performance of your graphics card.
A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system's 3D gaming capabilities, based on comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor...
Futuremark Corporation 3DMark Vantage Basic
3DMark Vantage is the industry standard performance benchmark for DirectX 10 gaming PCs. It includes two graphics tests, two CPU tests and six feature tests. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark Vantage is...
Rated: Jun 16, 2011 8:41 PM
This free benchmarking program checks to see if your PC can handle the latest games.
Rated: Jun 2, 2011 10:44 AM
Put your hardware through its paces, and then compare your performance online, with this free program.
Unigine Heaven DX11 Benchmark Basic Edition
Rated: Jan 3, 2012 1:03 PM
Justify your gaming obsession with a little slice of Heaven.
Rated: Jan 17, 2012 11:52 AM
Why go with synthetic benchmarks when Fraps can give you real-world results?
Passmark Software Performance Test (32-bit edition)
Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing and benchmarking. PassMark PerformanceTest allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers. Twenty-eight standard benchmark tests...
FinalWire Ltd. AIDA64 Extreme Edition
Industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning AIDA Technology. Exhaustive details of system information on 100 pages including CPU, FPU, disk and memory benchmarks, advanced...
FinalWire Ltd. AIDA64 Business Edition
AIDA64 Business Edition is an essential Windows network management solution for small and medium scale enterprises. AIDA64 Business Edition provides a wide range of features to compile, manage, and analyse hardware and software inventory of...
Key Features
Measure sequential reads/writes speed Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed Select test data (Random, 0Fill, 1Fill) Theme support Multi-Language...
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