will furmark kill my gpu??

[evident]

i really havent benchmarked anything since 3dmark 2003 honestly. i downloaded furmark and unigine heaven since that's what all reviews use nowadays as benchmarks. I turned furmark on for 15 minutes on my GTX460 and suddenly see the temp on my card shoot up to 99 degrees C, on stock.

holy cow wtf? could using this benchmark fry my gpu if i kept it on for any longer? needless to say i stopped using it.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Yes, furmark is bad.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

+1 I never use it anymore. Use a combo of haven and f@h bench.

 

[PliotronX]

Guaranteed

 

[dguy6789]

Yep.

It really annoys me too. Modern cards from both companies have far less tight quality control than they did back in the day. Something from the Radeon 9700 era or earlier from either company could run a furmark like program forever until the card died of age.

Modern cards are manufactured such that they'll die if they're used at absolute max 100% full load for an extended period of time because both companies and board manufacturers use the cheapest board components that can just barely stay within spec during what is considered common usage scenarios that don't really approach the absolute max load the GPU is really capable of pushing.

Imagine if Intel or AMD produced a CPU that would simply die if you ran prime95 or linX for too long and then you have the level of quality that all consumer grade video cards are built under.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Yep.

It really annoys me too. Modern cards from both companies have far less tight quality control than they did back in the day. Something from the Radeon 9700 era or earlier from either company could run a furmark like program forever until the card died of age.

Modern cards are manufactured such that they'll die if they're used at absolute max 100% full load for an extended period of time because both companies and board manufacturers use the cheapest board components that can just barely stay within spec during what is considered common usage scenarios that don't really approach the absolute max load the GPU is really capable of pushing.

Imagine if Intel or AMD produced a CPU that would simply die if you ran prime95 or linX for too long and then you have the level of quality that all consumer grade video cards are built under.

I don't know how Furmark compares to mining, but there are a lot of people who mine on their cards near 24x7 with a heavily loaded GPU.

 

[ShintaiDK]

If furmark breaks your card, then it was faulty.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

I loaded my card 24/7 at 1200/1247 with f@h and it died, but I've seen others do fine. Luck probably.

 

[Sohaltang]

I heard something about manufacturers putting some kind of furmark limit on cards to keep them from melting. Think that is why no one uses it to compare benchmarks

 

[taserbro]

I heard something about manufacturers putting some kind of furmark limit on cards to keep them from melting. Think that is why no one uses it to compare benchmarks

Can furmark even turn off the software temperature threshold warning and hardware throttling systems on the cards before those furmark limits?
I don't want to believe that modern gpus are shipped vulnerable to thermal runaway stock.

I've had an old gtx480 running pretty damn hot due to what I later found out to be a bad backplate erratically shorting the fan connections and was pleased to find that the gpu would always shut down before the temperature could get into the scary zone and after that was fixed, it ran rock solid.

 

[Enigmoid]

Weird, I can run furmark on my laptop continuously with an OC and not have any problems. (660m @ 1085/1250 at less than 80 degrees).

 

[FalseChristian]

I think that we all know that Furmark is a GPU-killer. Run demos of games or 3DMark is a much better and safer option.

 

[tweakboy]

Doing 24 hour max load, for 1 day or 2 days..... is not healthy for the CPU. Everything has a lifespan and you tapped with it.