Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.2% 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	77.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 91.1 1-Core 98.7 2-Core 196 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 377 8-Core 730 66% 554 Pts	64-Core 944 58% 944 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 436.15 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	91.2% Outstanding	Lighting 126 Reflection 137 Parallax 44.7 103% 103 fps	MRender 68.1 Gravity 109 Splatting 74.7 68% 83.8 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Geil Zenith A3 240GB 68 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114B SusWrite @10s intervals: 235 252 261 269 269 267 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	77.8% Very good	Read 462 Write 248 Mixed 263 SusWrite 259 69% 308 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 76.6 4K Mixed 34 119% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 188 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 172 120% 153 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 92%
Adata SU650 240GB-$70 47,016 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 223GB free Firmware: P180509a SusWrite @10s intervals: 357 390 443 442 448 449 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Read 451 Write 457 Mixed 420 SusWrite 421 99% 437 MB/s	4K Read 37.4 4K Write 92.8 4K Mixed 41.6 159% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 293 DQ Mixed 234 176% 231 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 99%
Toshiba DT01ABA300 3TB 5,677 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2.5TB free Firmware: MZ6OABB0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 139 143 141 145 144 146 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	80% Excellent	Read 136 Write 137 Mixed 26 SusWrite 143 80% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.5 126% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$56 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.5% Good	MC Read 28.7 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 22.3 69% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 18.8 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 107%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 82%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 73%

Battleship

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	77x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	49x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	38x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GBCorsair $210Bench 88%, 3,970 samples	31x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GBCorsair $98Bench 85%, 8,498 samples	29x

Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $924

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