Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% 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 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 72.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	79.4% 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	199% 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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191127
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 26 '20 at 00:21
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

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 3 3100 50,446 User benchmarks, average bench 75% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	72.8% Very good	Memory 71.6 1-Core 137 2-Core 274 86% 161 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 672 65% 535 Pts	64-Core 681 42% 681 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 432.00 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.4% Very good	Lighting 99.4 Reflection 111 Parallax 99.6 81% 103 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 97.2 Splatting 88.1 76% 94 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS2130 500GB SSD 2,021 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 143GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS213522 SusWrite @10s intervals: 873 913 965 970 977 552 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	199% Outstanding	Read 975 Write 974 Mixed 904 SusWrite 875 210% 932 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 187 4K Mixed 67.2 255% 99.9 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 898 DQ Mixed 486 414% 588 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 199% Great: 204%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 69GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 366 290 293 295 295 296 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	116% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 477 Mixed 401 SusWrite 306 94% 419 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 57.9 195% 68.4 MB/s	DQ Read 387 DQ Write 363 DQ Mixed 372 280% 374 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 124%
WD Se 2TB (2013)-$39 2,177 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 186GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 94 94 95 95 95 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	50.8% Above average	Read 82.3 Write 78.1 Mixed 62.9 SusWrite 94.2 59% 79.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 191% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 93%
Seagate Expansion Desk 4TB 21,301 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0915 SusWrite @10s intervals: 167 164 167 167 166 168 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Read 144 Write 149 Mixed 128 SusWrite 166 109% 147 MB/s	4K Read 7.4 4K Write 4.1 4K Mixed 0.6 451% 4.03 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 97%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4.5TB free Firmware: FS2A SusWrite @10s intervals: 99 98 97 102 96 99 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 58% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 239,203 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.2% Very good	MC Read 31.5 MC Write 18 MC Mixed 29.1 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 20.9 SC Write 18 SC Mixed 24.5 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 97.8 41% 97.8 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 111%

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

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $85Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,916x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $159Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	602x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	457x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	404x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	257x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	175x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	357x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	319x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	290x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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