Games library

Every game here is a benchmark worth running, and each entry says why: the workload it stresses, the settings that make it representative, and the review it was read off of.

• Alien: Isolation

  Alien: Isolation earns its place by being the light end of the ladder, and by being ruthlessly repeatable. The benchmark is a flythrough you start from the com…

• Black Myth: Wukong
  RasterizationRay tracingPath tracingUpscaling tech

  Black Myth: Wukong is widely used as a GPU stress test because it ships with a free, standalone benchmark tool on Steam that runs the exact same built-in bench…

• Cyberpunk 2077
  RasterizationRay tracingPath tracingVRAM stressUpscaling tech

  TechPowerUp frames Cyberpunk 2077 as an exceptionally demanding title, writing in its launch benchmark review that even without ray tracing the game is 'extrem…

• Hogwarts Legacy
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
  RasterizationCPU / simulationUpscaling tech

  Hardware reviewers point to Kingdom Come: Deliverance II as an unusually clean, well-optimized benchmark title. TechSpot described testing it as "a breath of f…

• Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
  RasterizationRay tracingCPU / simulationUpscaling techVRAM stress

  Hardware reviewers treat Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered as a useful benchmark because it is one of the strongest showcases of ray tracing to date while still s…

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider

  Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a benchmark you can actually check. Its built-in run walks three fixed scenes and writes the numbers to disk itself - a per-frame …

• Starfield
  RasterizationVRAM stressCPU / simulationTraversal / streamingUpscaling tech

  Starfield is widely used as a hardware benchmark because, as reviewers repeatedly noted at launch, it is an unusually demanding rasterization game relative to …