EzBench Benchmark news & patch notes

BETA Branch Release (December 23rd)

First of all, I want to thank everyone that has helped us with feedback, positive and negative. It helps us shape Ezbench. We have some major long-term plans in the works for a new and improved Ezbench in the future, but these are things that take time. It will be worth it in the end. However: A major update to Ezbench is coming. Some important changes will affect everyone. To make sure these updates are working well - we will be releasing a BETA Branch the 23rd of December. With goals of final release in January.

Update Notes:

We are upgrading Ezbench to Unreal Engine 5.1 - which will substantially increase the performance and stability across the board. This means that old results will not be comparable anymore. * We are removing the island scene. It will be replaced by a stress test based on Quixel Megascans. - Better performance opening for stress test on lower end systems. - Still maintains a high level of stress even for the highest end systems. - Leverages new incredibly powerful Nanite Foliage. - Billions of polygons, 8K Virtual Textures, Raytracing. Asset wireframe example: https://i.imgur.com/5PvIgAB.png We are adding a GPU Particle Test Scene: - Featuring giant swarms of Niagara particle system meshes. - GPU Rendered, Deterministic Random Seed. - Billion+ polygons, 8K Virtual textures, Raytracing. Additional changes: - Fix for the 5120x1440p 32:9 bug that would sometimes invalidate results. - Backend anti-tamper stuff. - Nvidia DLSS Update - Nvidia RTX SDK Update If you got suggestions, questions or comments - leave them below :)

Feature Update:

We've added DLSS support to the client as well as some backend stuff. In addition, we've added NVIDIA Reflex support. This won't do anything special currently, but is done as prep for future update. (You'll love it). We've done tweaks to the backend as well, increasing stability - specifically on Windows 11. We will soon update the Unreal Engine 5 to version 5.1. This will give significant boost to benchmarking scores and performance over-all. Date TBA. (Est. ~4 weeks)

LIVE! Experimental GPU Switching and Massively reduced client size!

The latest update '0.4' introduces an exciting new feature called 'GPU Select', which enables you to select the correct GPU for the benchmark. We have also reduced the package size by 60%! In addition, there will be a minor bugfix update coming pretty soon! Thank you for your ongoing support and feedback!

A note: The current updates requires nVidia users to have driver 516.94 or newer.

Hi everyone!

The latest update '0.4' introduces an exciting new feature called 'GPU Select', which enables you to select the correct GPU for the benchmark. We have also reduced the package size by ~60%! In addition, there will be a minor bugfix update coming pretty soon! Thank you for your ongoing support and feedback! -------- We are still working on the next scene for the client, as well as some new features not previously seen in benchmarking - it will be worth the wait - we promise!

Minor July Update: UI, Backend

We have done some backend adjustments to improve stability with Unreal Engine 5, esp. with the newest nVidia drivers: 516.59. The patch also includes a completely new UI. The patch size is around 8000MB and we apologize for this.

Changes:

- Backend stability and improvements. - Completely new and improved UI. - Less taxing main menu screen. This is handy for idle/adjusting clocks without closing program, improving stability.

PATCH NOTES: EzBench 1.1

First off, thank you to all the supporters and feedback - both positive and critical, it is invaluable for us as a team to improve the tool. EzBench started off as an idea for a "Furmark" style benchmark based on Unreal Engine 5, a proper stress test for GPU and thermals. We apologize that this might not have been immediately clear to everyone, but as the masses wish: We are continuing to develop this, both as a stress tester and a more traditional benchmark that most people are used to. Our future plans include engine showcases and more scenes, physics tests and more. Meanwhile, to help with making the current benchmark scene more accessible to people we've made some adjustments that will improve performance by 20 to 40%. A note here: This was never intended to be a optimized showcase scene, but a extremely heavy load scene, and as such these will be the last optimizations to the "Island" scene. New scenes in the future will be different and optimized. We apologize that the current update is somewhat large. This is due to changes in the texture system, and as such there is no way around replacing them. For stats: 1 8K Material with 3 textures is usually around 1 GB of data before packaging. - Overhaul of UI. We will improve on this in the future. We don't have an UI artist on the team, yet. - Several new modes added: - Loop Mode for Prolonged Stress Testing. - 1080p, 1440p, 2160p, 1440p 21:9 and 1440P 32:9 - Verification and invalidation of scores. - Optimization changes. Note: This remains a STRESS TEST. This isn't meant to run 60fps. - You can now cancel benchmarks mid run. The traction we got with EzBench really blew the ceiling... In fact, the entire ceiling went poof. What used to be a magical island in a cavern is now on the open seas. Some minor scene adjusts has been made in other places.

Improved readability on the menus. We also cleaned up the UI a bit and added some more information. Furthermore we adjusted a few textures in the main menu area that was blown out of proportions, these should now appear as intended. This is the release day update and should be included for anyone whom downloads it at release the 13th of may.