Benchmarking and testing hardware

Stress testing or benchmarking hardware is useful to see if the BIOS/UEFI settings, RAM timings and hardware configuration are correct.

• Open HW Monitor – shows you sensors and general system information
• Phoronix Test Suite – automated Linux benchmarks

• glmark2 – simple OpenGL benchmark with multiple test scenes.
• vkmark – simple Vulkan benchmark similar to glmark2

• Google Stressapptest
• mprime – calculates Pi and verifies it, CPU and RAM stresstests
• Furmark – rotating fur donut to stress test your GPU
• mdsched.exe – Windows tool for testing memory

CPU benchmark list: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/CPU_mega_page.html

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