I tried the ‘stress test your GPU hopes you never run’ and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump
Nukemark is a new GPU stress-testing application designed to push graphics hardware to its absolute limits. Built on Unreal Engine 5.7, the software leverages cutting-edge graphics technologies including Nanite, MegaLights, Lumen hardware ray tracing, and up to 8K virtual textures all operating at maximum intensity simultaneously.
According to developer Ezbench, even NVIDIA’s flagship RTX 5090 graphics card struggles significantly with Nukemark, achieving only 15-20 average frames per second at native resolution. The benchmark is intentionally extreme, designed to reveal the performance ceiling of modern gaming GPUs. Its Steam page description deliberately brands it as “the stress test your GPU hopes you never run,” underscoring its demanding nature.
The release arrives during a period of elevated GPU pricing in the market, making such demanding performance evaluation tools particularly noteworthy for the gaming community. Nukemark represents a rigorous test for high-end gaming systems and should prove valuable for enthusiasts and overclockers seeking to evaluate their hardware against the latest generation of graphics processing demands.