Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 90.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	10.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	122% 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 (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-9400F-$102 299,482 User benchmarks, average bench 85% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Memory 89.6 1-Core 126 2-Core 216 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 671 74% 582 Pts	64-Core 640 40% 640 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6790 4,043 User benchmarks, average bench 11% XFX(1682 3172) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	10.9% Very poor	Lighting 14 Reflection 12.3 Parallax 12.5 11% 12.9 fps	MRender 10.5 Gravity 10 Splatting 14.4 10% 11.6 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 10.9% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 321GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 428 450 466 474 456 464 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	122% Outstanding	Read 485 Write 429 Mixed 386 SusWrite 456 99% 439 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 57.3 188% 68.9 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 358 270% 360 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 134%
Samsung Spinpoint F3R 1TB 778 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 701GB free Firmware: 1AJ30002 SusWrite @10s intervals: 137 138 137 137 137 137 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	Read 131 Write 42.7 Mixed 71 SusWrite 137 70% 95.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 7.9 4K Mixed 1 295% 3.27 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 78%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$161 35,811 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.5% Good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 24.9 MC Mixed 20.3 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 19.4 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 110%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 54%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBIntel $49Bench 116%, 58,154 samples	64x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $150Bench 336%, 200,600 samples	34x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	33x

RAM
M378A1K43CB2-CRC 2x8GBSamsungBench 74%, 24,860 samples	72x
MSI24D4U7S8MH-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 73%, 1,032 samples	55x
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 2x8GBSamsungBench 80%, 29,586 samples	50x

Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $352

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