

Here in this article, we have also introduced some popular and reliable stress-test and benchmarking applications to help you get the job done. So without further ado, let’s get into the meat and potatoes. What is the GPU Stress Test?įeel free to skip this section if you already know what stress testing a GPU means and the intention behind carrying out these tests. GPU stress test is all about pushing your GPU to its absolute limits to get the best possible frame rate. The programs used for stress testing make the GPU run at maximum capacity by fully utilizing its processing and electrical power available to the card and simultaneously pushing the overall cooling and temperature to its limits. The main idea behind putting a GPU through the paces is to determine its performance during heavy load periods. If i sound confusing its cause the problem is confusing, ive googled it with no results and browsing forums, ive seen people with a similar issues but it was in games like battlefield bad company 2 with known issues with nvidia cards and the newer drivers.With normal usage or even with high-end gaming, it’s impossible to get the benchmarks for the machine’s full potential. So im wondering if its not bottle necking causing low gpu usage what could it be, and why in msi kombustor does the burn in feature utilize the gpu properly with good fps, but in the benchmark feature it has low gpu usage and poor fps. I have the same issue in some games with cpu requirements i meet, but yet i can run a game like deadspace 2 maxed out at 1280x1024 res and get 30-40 fps and that requires supposedly a better processor than i have and i can max it out and still have a good frame rate. Ive been told its bottle necking but if that were the case my cpu would be maxed out while running it, which its not. I have 30% gpu usage in benchmark and around 20 fps, as opposed to when using the burn-in feature of the same software and get 60-70 fps at 99% gpu usage (which is processing the same graphics from what i can see). Nah, same card, just upgraded to new version of msi afterburner and kombustor.
