To answer my own question: Open Hardware Monitor has it all, but it isn't obvious, the graphs are hidden under the "view" menu and require some box checking and tweaking to get it right, but when set, does a very, very good job. Check this screenshot. I'm tracking GPU and CPU temperature plus GPU, CPU and Memory load.
First idling, then playing No Man's Sky with three different options:
1) First GPU temperature (teal) spike (80C): V-sync off, experimental patch
2) V-sync on, experimental patch
3) V-sync on, standard game (no patch)
Awesome, I'm happy now :D
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+1 for Open Hardware Monitor
Alternative would be MSI Afterburner if you need in-game OSD
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I find that distracting, and I'm happy to check the numbers afterwards instead, but it can be good for situations where you want to know exactly when something is causing an FPS drop/intense GPU load. Thanks for the tip. Does it monitor the CPU as well, or GPU only? (...and does it work for non MSI products? I guess it does, just checking to be sure)
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I'm usually good at googling stuff, but when I didn't find anything satisfying at first I asked here, only to find it myself just a few minutes later after waiting for replies :D
This is an excellent tool for seeing what settings affect the performance in what way. Looking forward to trying it on my lower spec computer to see if it's the CPU or GPU that is the bottleneck in some games it has performance issues with.
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Edit:
As I wrote in this post I found what I was looking for, but I'll leave this thread open for anyone looking for something similar. I included a screenshot and link in the post for anyone interested.
Original post:
I find it interesting to after a gaming session be able to see what GPU/CPU usage and temperatures I had when playing. It would be nice with software doing graphs, so I can see how it varied during the whole session.
Requirements:
There is probably something out there that does all of this, but I haven't found it when googling. I tried GPU-Z, but it had such tiny graphs that didn't show the values, and only logged a few minutes. It also only monitored the GPU, otherwise it was a step in the right direction. Another one called GPU Temp does a nice very nice graph over the GPU temperature and does a chart from when the program is started, but doesn't show load or CPU temperature/load.
So, do you know what I'm looking for?
Screenshots for GPU Temp and GPU-Z so you know what I'm talking about (hover with the mouse over the images for description):
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