How to Benchmark Your Windows PC
Novabench is a benchmarking suite with CPU, GPU, RAM, and disk speed benchmarks. Unlike many all-in-one benchmark suites for Windows, Novabench is completely free. It’s not a trial and there’s no paid version with additional features that it’s trying to sell you. Novabench works with Windows 7 through 10. After you download and install Novabench, go ahead and run it. You’ll see a simple window where you can just click the “Start Benchmark Tests” button to get started. You can also use the “Tests” menu if you want to choose which tests to run, but for our example, we’re going to go ahead and run them all. Novabench’s benchmark process is faster than many other full benchmark suites. It took about a minute on our test system, while other benchmark suites took significantly longer. When it’s done testing, NovaBench displays an all-round NovaBench Score—where higher is better—and it also shows the results of each individual benchmark. Click the “Compare These Results ...