Free benchmark test demo thing... the info it gives is a bit... barebones but it works well enough... my 670 did alright on high settings but really got bogged down when all the units where in view.

Does the job and its free. Try it out then delete and forget.

Cool benchmark, reminds me of EVE, but you get to see 5000 ships all at once!

"Unable to initialize Graphics system.
Video card unsupported."

WELP, THAT'S ENOUGH PROOF FOR ME.

Best benchmark tool ever

Got 75 FPS average on highest settings 10/10 would waste 6 minutes looking at stupid spaceships again

Gud test... why are you reading the reviews on a free stress test?

Excellent stress tester for any GPU!

Still good stress-test for D3D. As for the people that have issues with 'Mantle' capable GPUs:

(...) that left AMD to reluctantly put an end to its API’s development in 2015.
And now AMD has killed off support for its ex-API entirely, with the latest AMD Radeon Adrenalin drivers completely nixing support. ~Jacob Ridley via pcgamesn.com (source link)[www.pcgamesn.com].

It's Free Benchmarking, what's not to love??


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Oxide Games
Star Swarm Stress Test - ©2013
C:\Users\RC\Documents\Star Swarm\Output_18_05_10_2312.txt
Version 1.10
05/10/2018 23:12
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== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
CPU: GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
Physical Cores: 4
Logical Cores: 8
Physical Memory: 17134735360
Allocatable Memory: 140737488224256
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== Configuration ==========================================
API: DirectX
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts (D3D11): Disabled
Small Batch Optimized (Mantle): Enabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 25422

Average FPS: 70.62
Average Unit Count: 4899
Maximum Unit Count: 6348
Average Batches/MS: 1578.76
Maximum Batches/MS: 4297.93
Average Batch Count: 24574
Maximum Batch Count: 118520
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The delta between stress tests and games has always been great, but the desire for such a product has never been greater. It begs the greatest question of the PC empire, why are we the market that can not get what we want?

Standard Test


GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
CPU: AuthenticAMD
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
Physical Cores: 3
Logical Cores: 6
Physical Memory: 8535465984
Allocatable Memory: 8796092891136
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== Configuration ==========================================
API: DirectX
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts: Disabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 7922

Average FPS: 22.01
Average Unit Count: 4055
Maximum Unit Count: 5624
Average Batches/MS: 436.12
Maximum Batches/MS: 865.77
Average Batch Count: 21128
Maximum Batch Count: 129902
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Mantle


Oxide Games
Star Swarm Stress Test - ©2013
C:\Users\Dirty_Monkey\Documents\Star Swarm\Output_14_02_22_1420.txt
Version 1.10
02/22/2014 14:20
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== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
CPU: AuthenticAMD
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
Physical Cores: 3
Logical Cores: 6
Physical Memory: 8535465984
Allocatable Memory: 8796092891136
===========================================================


== Configuration ==========================================
API: Mantle
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts: Disabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 14842

Average FPS: 41.22
Average Unit Count: 4153
Maximum Unit Count: 5640
Average Batches/MS: 645.79
Maximum Batches/MS: 4347.83
Average Batch Count: 17778
Maximum Batch Count: 146497
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My avg FPS nearly x2 that of the non-mantle api

GPU R9 270