Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.5% 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	249% 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	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20201103
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 24 '20 at 03:00
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600-$155 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 4.05 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 90.7 1-Core 122 2-Core 250 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 770 79% 635 Pts	64-Core 1,032 64% 1,032 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5600-XT-$300 112,731 User benchmarks, average bench 83% Sapphire(1DA2 E426) ≥ 4GB Ram: 6GB, Driver: 20.12.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 129 Parallax 167 101% 140 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 118 Splatting 86 82% 102 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$82 74,184 User benchmarks, average bench 242% 231GB free (System drive) Firmware: 32A0T2IA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 708 526 576 525 526 524 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	249% Outstanding	Read 2,394 Write 894 Mixed 1,208 SusWrite 564 279% 1,265 MB/s	4K Read 59.1 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 80.4 270% 95.4 MB/s	DQ Read 753 DQ Write 823 DQ Mixed 372 395% 650 MB/s
Poor: 147% ↑ This bench: 249% Great: 311%
Enmotus T00 FuzeDrive 2.5TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2TB free Firmware: 2.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 188 188 188 188 188 188 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	82.2% Excellent	Read 394 Write 440 Mixed 346 SusWrite 188 77% 342 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 84.3 4K Mixed 36.7 138% 50.5 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 354 DQ Mixed 167 160% 246 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BL8G36C16U4BL.M8FE1 2x8GB 5,257 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3400 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	MC Read 49.4 MC Write 47.9 MC Mixed 41.2 132% 46.2 GB/s	SC Read 30.8 SC Write 45.6 SC Mixed 36.3 107% 37.6 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 120%

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

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Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $142Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	460x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	176x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	317x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $525

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