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Question What graphics card benchmark sites does everyone use?

jamesdsimone said:
I generally use these three.

www.techpowerup.com

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www.gpucheck.com

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Do yourself a favor and stop using userbenchmark. That site is a joke and extremely biased, like to the point of meme status.

I would say Anandtech but they don't seem to care anymore. So Tom's, TPU, Gamers Nexus even though I prefer articles over videos. Or I'll just google a game I am interested in and see what I find.
 
Main Goto is Hardware Unboxed/Techspot - Same site has different name for Videos and Text.

Close Second is TechPowerup.

Between those two there is wide game coverage, and they both present the average deltas, so they are good sanity check on each other and that is enough benchmark coverage for me.

I follow Gamers Nexus but more for the investigations, site visits than reviews. I check their reviews, not for the benchmarks, but just to see if they found anything odd.
 
Techpowerup is okayish for ballpark results, but the newest game they have in their testsuite right now is Callisto Protocol so they have been ignoring recent developments where we see 8GB cards struggling hard in games like The Last of Us, Hogwarts Legacy, Forspoken, Resident Evil 4, etc. So Hardware Unboxed's youtube page has become my go to since they're testing newer games. I'm also very glad I'm subscribed to them for my purchase on the CPU side since without their testing I wouldn't have known how much of a minefield B660 boards were and probably would have ended up with a crap board to go with my i5-12400F.
 
SteveGrabowski said:
Techpowerup is okayish for ballpark results, but the newest game they have in their testsuite right now is Callisto Protocol so they have been ignoring recent developments where we see 8GB cards struggling hard in games like The Last of Us, Hogwarts Legacy, Forspoken, Resident Evil 4, etc. So Hardware Unboxed's youtube page has become my go to since they're testing newer games. I'm also very glad I'm subscribed to them for my purchase on the CPU side since without their testing I wouldn't have known how much of a minefield B660 boards were and probably would have ended up with a crap board to go with my i5-12400F.
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-Personally I tend to patient game so I prefer the long tail they have on their test suites.

That said they do tend to do smaller game specific reviews that aren't as expansive but still provide some insight on how newer games perform.

Can't say I've really ever needed indepth reviews of motherboards before (but after a recent AsRock B450 board experience maybe I should...)
 
GodisanAtheist said:
Can't say I've really ever needed indepth reviews of motherboards before (but after a recent AsRock B450 board experience maybe I should...)
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I hadn't either but at least half of the B660 boards they tested caused even an i5-12600k to throttle. I know it's a higher power chip than the i5-12400F but it's not like they were testing the 12600k with a heavy overclock, they were just testing stock. Plus they showed throttling with a locked i7-12700 too with a bunch of the boards, so I figured I'd spend $20 more for the board that could handle up to an i9-12900k. Especially since I live in Texas and my ambients can be pretty high in the summer. At least with the summers we have had last year and this year.
 
The source that seems to have gone to hell though is Digital Foundry. They used to be amazing, for instance they clearly showed the benefits of RAM speed in gaming back when gamer religion was that RAM speed didn't matter. They showed how much AMD cards sucked with lower end cpus in DX11 games ten years ago because of cpu overhead. But they really went downhill once they started doing promotional videos like their puff pieces on the XBox One X and the RTX 2000 series, and now they're so focused on raytracing in their hardware reviews.

Plus they lied about Horizon Forbidden West's graphics, calling it a graphical masterclass in their pre-launch hype video and then waiting until after release when it was too late for refunds to tell us oops yeah performance mode has crap image quality. John Linneman is a sleazebag for hiding that in his graphics review and I'm still mad at paying $60 for an unfinished game I could have bought for $30 after it was fixed because of his glowing review where the closest thing he said to indicating performance mode sucked was saying this was the rare game where he really liked the 30 fps graphics mode more. Also man it's crickets from Digital Foundry now that it's Nvidia with the DX12 overhead problem and AMD cards running better on lower end cpus.
 
SteveGrabowski said:
I hadn't either but at least half of the B660 boards they tested caused even an i5-12600k to throttle. I know it's a higher power chip than the i5-12400F but it's not like they were testing the 12600k with a heavy overclock, they were just testing stock. Plus they showed throttling with a locked i7-12700 too with a bunch of the boards, so I figured I'd spend $20 more for the board that could handle up to an i9-12900k. Especially since I live in Texas and my ambients can be pretty high in the summer. At least with the summers we have had last year and this year.
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Yeah, their MB roundups are great. I chose my MSI B660 from their review, to go with my 12400. It's overkill VRM for the 12400, but maybe I might upgrade that someday...
 
I primarily use TPU and TechSpot/HUB since they have some of the larger test suites which helps give a better average picture and I'll usually watch the GN video review since Steve is always going to be entertaining if nothing else and I do rather enjoy listening to him rip something to shreds and call it a waste of sand.

I'll usually check out a few others like Tom's, but too many sites have such small test suites these days that it can tilt the average performance results even if there's no intention on the part of the reviewer to do that.

Both GN and HUB Steve have been doing a great job recently of pointing out image quality issues that wouldn't normally show up in the raw numbers or to point out other potential concerns, so I think they're great from a consumer perspective
 
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