TechPowerUp has today released the latest version of its popular monitoring utility used worldwide by famed overclockers, reviewers and enthusiasts.
With Version 0.5.8 comes two new features along the regular fixes provided.
The first one is a render test that applies sufficient load ( but not stress) on the GPU to pull it out of PCI-Express link-state power-management, ensuring the Bus information is accurate. If information is displayed incorrectly (i.e. PCI-Express bus link speed or PCIe version displayed incorrectly) just click on the “?” button next to the field to launch the load test.
The second feature is ASIC quality, designed for NVIDIA Fermi (GF10x and GF11x GPUs) and AMD Southern Islands (HD 7800 series and above), aimed at advanced users, hardware manufacturers, and the likes. TechPowerUp found the ways in which AMD and NVIDIA segregate their freshly-made GPU ASICs based on the electrical leakages the chips produce (to increase yield by allotting them in different SKUs and performance bins), and they’ve found ways in which ASIC quality can be quantified and displayed. You’ll find this feature in the context menu of GPU-Z. They’re also currently working on implementing this feature on older AMD Radeon GPUs.
Here’s a full log of the changes made:
Available now, you may download the regular GPU-Z 0.5.8 here, or choose to get the ROG theme GPU-Z 0.5.8 here.
Source: TPU
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