How to benchmark your system (esp. GPU) with Unigine Superposition
Welcome to a short introduction to the Unigine Superposition Benchmark.
It is sort of the successor to the Heaven benchmark, for which we also happen to have an introduction video ( • How to benchmark your system with Heaven ).
Download link
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https://benchmark.unigine.com/superpo...
What you will be most interested in is the benchmark section. We would advise sticking with the Presets. For comparison’s sake the 1080p extreme should be chosen. Please note that the final benchmark score does not scale with the stress that is put on your system. Meaning a low resolution and quality will always yield a higher benchmark score. So simply keep it on 1080p.
Now you can click run and watch the short benchmark scene. It lasts a bit less than 3 minutes and take you into a lab / office environment back in the days, where an anti-gravitational machine is being tested.
While the benchmark is running you can see the essential information of your graphics card in the top right hand corner on-screen display. If you want a customized on-screen display while playing video games you might want to check out our video on that ( • How to set up MSI Afterburner On-Screen Di... ).
My 1080 GTX on an i7 4790k scored 4025 points -While recording the footage. In case you bought the advanced Or professional edition you can upload your results.
In case you haven't, you can at least take a screenshot by clicking on the camera icon. What's interesting now is comparing the result online. This gives you a rough comparison with other user.
However, you should take into consideration that the results you see for similar configurations might be skewed. This is simply due to overclockers willing to pay for the advanced edition and showing off their overclocking skills. You can easily check if the components of certain results are overclocked by simply clicking on the score. So if you're into to simply benchmarking your system, especially your GPU, take the results online with a grain of salt.
What you can definitely use superposition benchmark for is compare results for your individual system before and after overclocking components, especially your graphics card. I did another run of 1080p extreme without recording and scored 4075 points. After a pretty easy overclock, using MSI Afterburner ( • Overclocking GPU with MSI Afterburner [HOW... ), I scored 4282 points. That is an increase with just a few clicks of a little more than 5%.
A nice final feature is the free roam mode. Simply select game in the menu you and check the lower right-hand corner For the key configuration. In case you have VR capable hardware you can also go for a virtual reality run.
Timestamps
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0:00 Introduction
0:23 Choosing Benchmark
1:29 Results
1:52 Comparing Results Online
2:40 Before and after OC