Asus PRIME B450M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	74.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B450M-A (all builds)
Memory	7.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190307
Uptime	12.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 18 '19 at 00:15
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700-$195 144,475 User benchmarks, average bench 69% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	75.3% Very good	Memory 71.7 1-Core 108 2-Core 215 73% 131 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 669 67% 546 Pts	64-Core 1,136 70% 1,136 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% Gigabyte(1458 3FBE) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.2% Very good	Lighting 95.3 Reflection 86.9 Parallax 82.1 78% 88.1 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 84.4 Splatting 66.9 67% 84.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Blaze 240GB-$50 1,382 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: S8FM08.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 297 300 107 127 124 50 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	58.3% Above average	Read 468 Write 403 Mixed 225 SusWrite 168 70% 316 MB/s	4K Read 13.6 4K Write 53.8 4K Mixed 16.9 71% 28.1 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 58 78% 138 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 85%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 5TB 546 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 174GB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 183 175 179 193 189 188 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 164 Mixed 75.8 SusWrite 185 113% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.9 174% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 2400 C15 Series 4x4GB 185 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 23.3 MC Mixed 24.8 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 25.7 SC Mixed 22.2 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 97.6 41% 97.6 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 103%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 49%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 46%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A - $78

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	2,265x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,966x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	737x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	1,080x
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	649x
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia $240Bench 71%, 428,800 samples	595x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	342x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $51Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	274x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	217x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	567x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	439x
DDR4 3000 2x8GBAdataBench 80%, 77,202 samples	253x

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Total price: $364

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16