Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	124% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170710
Uptime	3.7 Days
Run Date	Sep 10 '20 at 02:01
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7500-$89 149,467 User benchmarks, average bench 67% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	79.7% Very good	Memory 84.7 1-Core 112 2-Core 223 79% 140 Pts	4-Core 432 8-Core 428 58% 430 Pts	64-Core 425 26% 425 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 1474) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 446.14 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 188 Parallax 171 141% 177 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 166 Splatting 121 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 104 36 37 29 34 33 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Read 485 Write 459 Mixed 348 SusWrite 45.4 75% 334 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 52.5 181% 64.8 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 225 206% 315 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 167 166 173 174 174 174 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	69% Good	Read 69.1 Write 119 Mixed 80.9 SusWrite 171 81% 110 MB/s	4K Read 2.4 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0 109% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 90%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 634GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 89 90 90 89 89 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	55.8% Above average	Read 104 Write 114 Mixed 76.6 SusWrite 89.5 71% 96.1 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1 211% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT8G4DFS8213.C8FBD1 CT8G4DFS824A.C8FDD1 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.9% Average	MC Read 14.4 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 12.9 40% 14 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 13.5 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 72.2 55% 72.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 72%

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

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,294x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	962x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	713x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	530x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	467x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	462x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	140x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	139x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	109x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	92x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	78x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 1x8GBAdataBench 42%, 10,940 samples	66x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $385

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16