Stress Testing

Monitoring Tools

You can use s-tui for monitoring temps and usage (and running stress-ng if you have it as well). You can also use sudo powerstat -R to look at CPU power package usage. Of course btop can work. If you want to look at GPU nvtop can work for iGPU + dGPU

Linux Stress Testing

stress-ng for CPU (although using s-tui is probably better since you can see everything at once) For GPU, you can run llama-bench with extra repetitions or glxgears should work as well:

glxgears -swapinterval 0

For memory, https://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/ is a classic option For GPU memory testing:

• https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan
• AMD
  • https://github.com/ROCm/rocm_bandwidth_test
• Nvidia
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvbandwidth
  • https://github.com/enfiskutensykkel/multi-gpu-bwtest
  • https://gist.github.com/joshlk/bbb1aca6e70b11d251886baee6423dcb
    • https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-samples/tree/master/Samples/1_Utilities/bandwidthTest
    • https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-samples/tree/master/Samples/5_Domain_Specific/p2pBandwidthLatencyTest

Window Stress Testing

There are lots of options but OCCT https://www.ocbase.com/occt/personal is a good all-in-one option. Otherwise, the classic combo is:

• https://www.mersenne.org/download/ - Prime95, small FFT

Web-Only Stress Testing

If you only have a web browser and want to max out CPU, I’ve found this to work well:

• https://github.com/tangx246/cpustresser
• https://tangx246.github.io/cpustresser/index.html Set workers to 2 x threads and it should be able to get things up to 100% usage

For GPU, https://www.shadertoy.com/ is the way to go.

• https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttSWf - iq’s Rainforest is able to max out a Radeon 780M GPU