Puget Labs Expands Its Real-World Benchmarking Platform to One of the Industry’s Most Widely Used Real-Time 3D Creation Tools
Auburn, WA (June 10, 2026) – Puget Systems (www.pugetsystems.com) today announced it is continuing its commitment to bringing real-world performance testing to industry-popular creative applications with the launch of Puget Bench for Unreal Engine.
Puget Bench for Unreal Engine is a real-world performance benchmark designed to evaluate how modern workstation hardware performs inside Unreal Engine production workflows. Built on Puget Labs’ established methodology of application-based benchmarking, the new test suite focuses on reproducible, workflow-driven performance measurement rather than synthetic or isolated hardware metrics.
Designed for a broad spectrum of users, including real-time 3D artists, technical directors, visualization professionals, developers, reviewers, and hardware manufacturers, the benchmark helps answer practical questions such as:
- How will new CPU or GPU hardware improve Unreal Engine workflows?
- What is the real performance impact of different workstation configurations?
- Is a system performing as expected under production-like workloads?
- Which hardware components are limiting performance in real projects?
A public beta program for Puget Bench for Unreal Engine will open later this year, allowing Unreal Engine users, studios, reviewers, and hardware partners to participate in early testing and feedback.
Puget Bench for Unreal Engine: How it Works
Puget Bench for Unreal Engine runs directly on top of a user’s installed UE environment, executing a series of real-world tests designed to reflect common production tasks. Examples include loading complex projects, evaluating viewport performance, processing real-time rendering workloads, and measuring content creation tasks used in professional pipelines.
Unlike synthetic benchmarks that isolate specific hardware components, Puget Bench for Unreal Engine measures performance in integrated workflows that combine CPU, GPU, memory, and storage behavior in realistic production scenarios.
What is Puget Bench for Creators?
Puget Bench for Creators is Puget Systems’ unified benchmarking platform designed to evaluate performance across industry-standard creative applications using real-world workloads rather than synthetic tests.
The benchmarks run directly inside the host applications to ensure results reflect actual production performance. This approach allows users to validate system performance, compare hardware configurations, and identify potential bottlenecks using workflows that closely mirror day-to-day professional work.
Puget Bench for Creators currently includes benchmarks for:
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Lightroom Classic
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve
- And coming soon, Unreal Engine
These benchmarks focus on the most widely used professional workflows in each application, ensuring results are relevant, repeatable, and actionable for real production environments.
Puget Bench for Creators is available for Windows and macOS. Benchmarks are free for personal use, with commercial licensing required for organizations and users needing advanced features such as local logging, automation, and CLI integration.
For more details, licensing information, and access to Puget Bench for Creators, please visit https://www.pugetsystems.com/pugetbench/creators/.
To join the waitlist for the Puget Bench for Unreal Engine beta, please visit https://www.pugetsystems.com/landing/puget-bench-for-unreal-engine/.
About Puget Systems
Puget Systems is based in the Seattle suburb of Auburn, WA, and specializes in high-performance, custom-built computers. We emphasize customization with laser focus on understanding each customer’s specific workflow, and offer personal consulting and support that we believe is becoming quite rare in the industry. Our goal is to provide each client with the best possible computer for their needs and budget. For more information or to see how Puget Systems can design a system specifically tailored to the work that you do, please visit www.pugetsystems.com.