Furmark based tests, Yea or Nay?
How long should I run furmark?
Will furmark damage my gpu?
How to force Furmark or any GPU stress test to use the iGPU(iGPU undervolting wanting to stable).
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I have used Furmark based tests for years to start my OC process, usually in the form of PrecisionX\Kombuster. I have been noticing that it does not get close to representing a real world load, and pulls around 100w more power through the card then any other stress or benchmark test I have seen. I recently killed a Vega 56 Pulse while running Furmark and that is what caused me to look into what is going on much more deeply, with both an AMD card and a nVidia card.
With Vega 56 I would pull around 280-300w overclocked max in things like Superposition and Timespy. In a Furmark based test I would see the draw increase to 400w+, seemingly bypassing Vega power limits.
With a older GTX 970 I saw similar results, 200w overclocked under Superposition and Timespy. Jumping to 300w under Furmark, which is crazy power numbers to go through a GTX 970.
To me, the tessellation stress test in PrecisionX\Kombuster is still a heavy hitting test, but also far more representative of real world loads that your card is ever likely to incur.
After killing a card with a Furmark based tests, and looking into how much more power those tests can pull over "normal" tests, I think I am done using Furmark from now on.
What about everyone else, where do you land on Furmark, Yea or Nay?
During a 30 min stress today on my pc for stability since I updated my bios today, my brother walked into my room and said Furmark is bad for my gpu? How true is that really?
So basically, I have a lot of anxiety when it comes to my pc, and for the past month I kept checking it by doing like a 15 min full pc stress test after checking it.
Now, nothing overheated. My cpu was fine, my gpu was like 60 degrees boards, around 80 hotspot and around 76-78 memory. I have an Asus tuf RX7800XT OC so Ikd if these ar good temps or nah.
During a 30 min stress today on my pc for stability since I updated my bios today, my brother walked into my room and said Furmark is bad for my gpu? How true is that really? Is it really that abd for it compared to other stress tests?
How likely is it that these tests will affect my gpu going on from now?
Recently installed a 9070xt and decided to run some stress tests on it after unvervolting. I ran the stress test on Furmark and went to do chores. I forgot about it for almost 4 hours and now I'm paranoid I've ruined the GPU.
I’ve recently performed some CPU/GPU stress tests on my system. I used FurMark for both & ran them at the same time.
The CPU (5600x), whilst OC’d to 4.6GHz, was only doing 4.2GHz & drawing 46.7W during the test, at 30 minutes & 60 minutes. This is despite CPU utilisation being 100%.
I’d just assumed FurMark would push the CPU to it’s limits (as it does with GPUs), but it seems not?
The 5600x is meant to draw 65W at most right, so FurMark isn’t really pushing it, but the 100% is confusing me.
Can someone explain what’s going on?