Hardware Busters GPU Test Suite

What Hardware Busters GPU Test Suite is

Hardware Busters GPU Test Suite is a free, open-source Windows framework for arranging GPU benchmarks, recording how measurements were produced, creating reports, and authoring profiles. It supports profile-driven game launches, navigation, capture, and benchmark orchestration. It also includes controlled workflows for evaluating GPU coolers, with measurement and reporting support. Run data can be turned into self-contained HTML reports. The public source release includes a curated Hardware Busters Verified game pack and disabled community samples; the project lists 12 benchmark presets and supports custom workloads.

The documented game benchmark workflow uses PresentMon or RTSS for FPS and frametime evidence. Vision tasks such as OCR, navigation, and motion use FFmpeg and an Elgato capture stream. Elgato Game Capture 4K Pro is the only capture-card model currently qualified for the full automated game-benchmark workflow. The project documents building on Windows with the .NET 9 SDK and provides the software under the Apache License, Version 2.0. It does not include commercial games, benchmark applications, downloadable content, accounts, or license keys, so users need to install those items and have legitimate access. Its documented pre-flight performs a bounded stream probe and says no image is retained. Bug and security issue reports are directed to the repository issue tracker, as described in its security policy.

Who it suits

This suite suits Windows users who need profile-based GPU game benchmarking or controlled GPU cooler evaluation, with measurement details and self-contained reports. It is also relevant to people who want to author custom workloads and work with open-source software under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Limits

The software is free. Commercial games, benchmark applications, downloadable content, accounts, and license keys are not included and must be installed and accessed legitimately; the full automated game-benchmark workflow currently qualifies only Elgato Game Capture 4K Pro.

Getting started

1. Open the project repository on GitHub.
2. Build on Windows with the .NET 9 SDK.
3. Install commercial games and benchmark applications separately, with legitimate access.
4. For the full automated game-benchmark workflow, use Elgato Game Capture 4K Pro.
5. Use PresentMon or RTSS for FPS and frametime evidence; use FFmpeg and an Elgato capture stream for vision tasks.

Verdict

Choose Hardware Busters GPU Test Suite if you need a free Windows framework for orchestrating GPU benchmarks, evaluating coolers, and producing reports from run data. It is especially suited to workflows that can use its documented capture and measurement tools. Look elsewhere if you need included commercial games or cannot use the qualified capture card for the full automated game-benchmark workflow.