FurMark has been successfully tested on the following systems:
Core 2 Duo 8400 / 2048M DDR3 / Windows XP SP2 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 / Forceware 186.18
AMD X2 3800+ / 2048M DDR2 / Windows XP SP2 / HIS Radeon HD 4850 / Catalyst 9.6
FurMark is a freeware, please read the EULA.txt before use.
If you wish to contact the author, just send an email to jegx[AT]ozone3d[DOT]net and add [FURMARK] to the mail subject.
What is FurMark?
FurMark is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms
to measure the performance of the graphics card. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that's why FurMark is also a
perfect stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card.
The benchmark offers several options allowing the user to tweak the rendering: fullscreen / windowed mode, MSAA selection,
window size, duration.
This benchmark requires an OpenGL 2.0 compliant graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 5/6/7/8 (and higher),
AMD/ATI Radeon 9600 (and higher) or a S3 Graphics Chrome 400 series with the latest graphics drivers.
The startup interface allows you to tweak the benchmark features such as:
Benchmark mode or stability test mode (for overclockers)
GPU temperature monitoring and recording in a file
Fullscreen or windowed for each type of run mode
Window size selection (standard or custom)
MSAA samples selection
Benchmarking parameters: time based or frames based
If you want to translate the interface in another language, feel free to send the translated file
(see gui-english.xml in FurMark's folder for an example) at jegx AT ozone3d.net.
You can also validate the score online: just click on [Get Validation ID]. This action sends score data to the oZone3D.Net server
and you get in return a validation ID that allows an online checking of the score.
The scores webpage is here:
The default benchmark settings are: Fullscreen, MSAA None, 1280x1204, duration 1 minute. At the end of the benchmark, just read
the o3Marks score in the result dialog box. The o3Mark score is simple: it's the number of frames that have been displayed during the benchmark.
Thus the higher the score, the more powerful the graphics system is.
Command Line Parameters
FurMark 1.4.0 introduces command line parameters to control how FurMark is launched. For more information about these parameters
see: Know FurMark’s Command Line Parameters.
The following command line starts FurMark with benchmark's default parameters:
Xtreme Burning is a mode where the workload of GPU is maximal. In this mode, the donut is fixe and is displayed in
front side which offers the largest surface. In this mode, the GPU quickly becomes very hot:
The Xtreme Burning mode can be started in command line or directly by launching the file start-Xtreme-Burning.bat.
This mode is perfect for testing your new overclocking parameters.
Comparative Table
This table gives an idea of the average score by type of card.
The graphics settings for the standard benchmark are:
New: added a Contest Mode checkbox. This mode enables anti-cheat protections (timer, window, etc).
This is the only mode where you can display the dialog box that shows the valided score at the end of the benchmark.
Thanks to http://www.hardware.info community for tests (v1.2.x).
New: added online validation. Just click on [Get Validation ID] to receive a validation id. Email, name, GPU-Z and CPU-Z
are optional. Online score page is here.
New: added the display of GPU core temperature in the stability test.
New: the rendering is now done in a separate thread.
New: added file version information.
Bugfix: this is workaround for a bug in Catalyst 7.11+. More information here
Change: background image (free image from 3dm3.com).
Change: improved the internal timer to make it more robust with multi-cores cpus.
Change: the MSAA selection is now done with a selection list instead of radio buttons
and only MSAA samples supported by the graphics card are displayed.
Change: new name: FurMark.
Acknowledgements: thanks to www.hardware.info community for tests on the 1.2.x branch,
and thanks to Dr Spankenstein (from techPowerUp forums) for his countless tests on the beta version 1.3.0.
Versions 1.2.x - Not released
Version 1.1.0 - September 20, 2007
Changed: added fullscreen (FS) or Windowed (W) information to the score dialog box.
Bugfix: crash occured just after the message for non-OpenGL2 graphics cards.
