ChimbaBench

If you have the time and are enthusiastic about finding out more about your system, benchmarking it can help you better perceive its relative performance level. Given that many games have benchmarks of their own through which you can assess system performance, it shouldn’t be too hard to find a worthwhile solution.

A new benchmarking tool that also happens to be portable comes in the form of ChimbaBench. The program contains two short-duration benchmarks that serve to ballpark your GPU’s performance.

The software gives users the possibility to quickly benchmark their graphics card without requiring them to set anything up beforehand. Owing to its portable nature, the program is ready to go right after unpacking, making it a viable choice for a quick benchmarking tool you can put on a USB stick and take with you.

Its interface is rather simple, but I think that’s for the better. Users can access two types of GPU tests: GPU Heavy and Simple Box. As should be obvious by now, Heavy stresses your card to its power limit, while Simple Box shows how it deals with high FPS scenarios.

The benchmarks take no more than 60 seconds, so they won’t require you to wait around much. Upon completion, some details about your GPU performance will be presented, such as its ChimbaPoints score, as well as an average FPS value.

If you want to make the tests easier or harder on your hardware, you’ll be able to do so in the Settings menu. You can choose your preferred MSAA and Anisotropy values and opt for a lower or higher resolution if you desire.

The program can also display some information about your GPU via WMI Info. Data about its adapter code, device ID, driver date and version, and other such things are present therein.

ChimbaBench is a simple take on benchmarking. It is portable, straightforward, and should work well enough to help you assess the performance of your GPU.