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.
Workload
- Black Myth: WukongRasterizationRay 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 2077RasterizationRay 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…
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance IIRasterizationCPU / 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 RemasteredRasterizationRay 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…
- StarfieldRasterizationVRAM 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 …