Yesterday, our friend Jacob Freeman from EVGA uploaded an image on TwitPic depicting
an upcoming proprietary benchmarking and stress testing utility for desktop
graphics cards.
Not much is known about the utility at this point other than
the fact that it will be designed and developed to run on Nvidia Geforce
desktop cards. We aren’t sure about ATI compatibility at this point, but it
could very well be under consideration. In perspective, the utility can be seen
as EVGA’s version of Furmark or ATI Tool, complete with GPU artifact scanning by
stress testing as well as benchmarking options.
According to the company, the utility will also be able to
integrate with EVGA Precision which would turn the entire software combination
into an overclocking, voltage tuner, monitor and stress test all-in-one
package. This is definitely something that many EVGA users have been looking
forward to and we are definitely looking forward to the first release.
In addition, the plan is to eventually enable multi-GPU
support which would mark the first time that an Nvidia-oriented application will
be able to run SLI stress testing. As far as availability goes, Jacob says it will
be “coming soon to an EVGA card near you,” and we are hoping the release will be sometime within the next week or two.
As of now, the company is taking suggestions, comments and
feedback in the official EVGA forum discussion thread here.
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EVGA to release benchmarking and stress testing utility
Multi-GPU benchmarking, EVGA Precision integration