What games do you use to test a new video card?

[dpodblood]

I am going to be receiving my new r9 290 this evening and got to thinking; what games should I use to push this new card? I find most often when you get a new mid-high end card it can cut through most games with ease, however there may be a few that can still offer up a challenge.

From my Steam library:
Metro Last Light
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Wolfenstein The New Order
Crysis
Sleeping Dogs (w/HD textures)

What about you? What games do you like to test/show off a new GPU with?

 

[dmoney1980]

All the games you listed above tax the video card, especially Witcher 2 with uber sampling! Crysis and Metro are a great benchmark too. What resolution are you playing at?

 

[dpodblood]

All the games you listed above tax the video card, especially Witcher 2 with uber sampling! Crysis and Metro are a great benchmark too. What resolution are you playing at?

I'll be playing at 1080p.

 

[dmoney1980]

You should be set. Try Witcher 2 with uber sampling and see how it holds up.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Crysis 1 is more a CPU test now that video cards have caught up.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

The games I own.
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If it works with my games I'm good.
Maybe try running a compute load like F@H though, as cards can be unstable on that but stable in games.

 

[Blitzvogel]

Crysis 1 is more a CPU test now that video cards have caught up.

Been playing with my new Haswell i5, and still get dips into the low 30s at times. Thanks for not taking advantage of quads Crytek

Anyways, newer games are always the best way to test. Unfortunately the only "new" ones I have are Shadow of Mordor and MGS5: Ground Zeroes.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Been playing with my new Haswell i5, and still get dips into the low 30s at times. Thanks for not taking advantage of quads Crytek

Yeah, god even with my Pentium G3258 @ 4.2 GHz I'd get lots of dips into the low to mid 50s and occasional 40s running everything at very high with a GTX 970. I haven't tested it with my 3.4 GHz Xeon E3 1231v3, but it'll obviously perform worse unless their caching is super optimized to the point the 8MB L3 cache on my Xeon makes a night and day difference vs the 3MB on the Pentium. And optimized and Crysis go together about as well as nuts and gum. That's one game you'd expect an overclocked Pentium to absolutely crush (since it was written for Core 2 Duos) and it doesn't.

 

[hawtdawg]

Far Cry 4 is probably the most taxing game I've played recently. takes 2 OC'd 780's to consistently stay above 60fps at 1440p, can't really use AA either. Crysis 3 is pretty taxing also, probably a little more than FC4, but not by much.