Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	92.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	175% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	8.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20181009
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '20 at 02:28
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

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PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	72.7% Very good	Memory 70.8 1-Core 113 2-Core 220 74% 135 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 466 58% 445 Pts	64-Core 482 30% 482 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 457.30 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	92.2% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 125 Parallax 114 94% 118 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 120 Splatting 105 89% 109 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$33 44,050 User benchmarks, average bench 125% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: AADA4101 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 909 358 341 417 344 343 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	175% Outstanding	Read 1,504 Write 1,061 Mixed 971 SusWrite 452 222% 997 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 99.8 4K Mixed 50.9 171% 61.8 MB/s	DQ Read 689 DQ Write 847 DQ Mixed 627 512% 721 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 175% Great: 193%
Samsung 860 Evo 1TB-$130 602,853 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 931GB free Firmware: RVT03B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 348 415 411 434 436 431 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 460 Write 428 Mixed 411 SusWrite 412 96% 428 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 83.2 4K Mixed 47.6 158% 55.2 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 332 DQ Mixed 353 266% 355 MB/s
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 133%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown XRMWRN-HYA 1x16GB 543 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	40.2% Average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 13 41% 14.4 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 10.5 SC Mixed 10.1 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 99.5 40% 99.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 40.2% Great: 53%

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

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Workstation 83%

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,855x
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,388x
Core i5-8400Intel $131Bench 82%, 312,220 samples	772x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,298x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,039x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	663x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	844x
SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 238%, 21,542 samples	163x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $97Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	153x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 78%, 8,965 samples	552x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 9,471 samples	548x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,858 samples	493x

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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $633

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 $40	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