# What software can be used for benchmarking games in detail? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 30, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-software-can-be-used-for-benchmarking-games-in-detail/815121 "2018-05-30T10:58:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JakeRS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@JakeRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JakeRS)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-software-can-be-used-for-benchmarking-games-in-detail/815121/1 "2018-05-30T10:58:33Z")
Fraps shows the FPS counter, but I saw that a lot of Benchmarking youtube channels have way more info, particularly RAM and VRAM, CPU usage and stuff like that and that’s what I am looking for. So, what software can I get to measure that? ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-software-can-be-used-for-benchmarking-games-in-detail/815121/2 "2018-05-30T11:26:35Z")
MSI Afterburner combined with RivaTunerStatisticsServerr is a popular setup. It’ll show that stuff and you can log it all to a file. While they are separate things, most of the recent versions of Afterburner come with RTSS. You don’t need an MSI video card either. They just bought the software. ---
**Author:** ![zwede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac91a4/32.png) [@zwede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwede)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-software-can-be-used-for-benchmarking-games-in-detail/815121/3 "2018-05-30T13:18:43Z")
[https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com](https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com) will do it all, although in my experience it could be easier to use. Quite powerful though. It’s also cross platform, open source & free.