3DMark Steam Charts & Stats

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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. [list] [*]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. [/list] 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.

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

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.