Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89% 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	52.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200713
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '21 at 22:10
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	52%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 76.8 1-Core 113 2-Core 223 77% 138 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 652 66% 538 Pts	64-Core 863 53% 863 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060-$324 645,160 User benchmarks, average bench 90% MSI(1462 3755) CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 461.09 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	89% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 124 Parallax 108 90% 114 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 97.4 Splatting 92.5 86% 108 fps
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 97%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Crucial BX500 480GB-$38 83,298 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 101GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR022 SusWrite @10s intervals: 259 255 139 6.9 7.4 5.8 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	52.3% Above average	Read 449 Write 6.5 Mixed 8 SusWrite 112 31% 144 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 7.5 4K Mixed 31.3 85% 22 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 971GB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 153 155 157 156 158 158 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 132 Mixed 80.7 SusWrite 156 99% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.9 159% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G4D240FSEK.8FBD BLS8G4D240FSE.16FBR2 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	84.3% Excellent	MC Read 33.2 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 28.2 86% 30.1 GB/s	SC Read 24.1 SC Write 31.7 SC Mixed 25.8 78% 27.2 GB/s	Latency 86.8 46% 86.8 ns
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 84%

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Typical B450M Steel Legend Builds (Compare 8,098 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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 $151Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	459x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
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	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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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