Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 21% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 102%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	13.3% 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	97.5% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 19 '17 at 11:54
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 155 2-Core 319 104% 191 Pts	4-Core 570 8-Core 872 89% 721 Pts	64-Core 874 54% 874 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390-$325 82,117 User benchmarks, average bench 50% Sapphire(174B E324) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	13.3% Very poor	Lighting 15.6 Reflection 14.6 Parallax 23.2 13% 17.8 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 15.9 Splatting 22.7 14% 16.7 fps
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 13.3% Great: 52%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 9% 49GB free Firmware: 1AC01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 94 94 2760 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 3896 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 9621 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 15958 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2814 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 60 437911578 (C2) HDA temperature 74 58 437846042 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 26491 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 19 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	8.72% Terrible	Read 84.2 Write 77.8 Mixed 59.3 16% 73.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.33 2% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 8.72% Great: 9%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3885 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 708 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 54 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 28 (EB) Unknown 99 99 86 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25783411277	97.5% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 416 Mixed 428 102% 456 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 29.4 162% 60.3 MB/s	DQ Read 45.4 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 29.5 37% 62.4 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 133%

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 @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 38.2 MC Write 39.8 MC Mixed 28.4 101% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 23.3 SC Write 42 SC Mixed 31.7 92% 32.3 GB/s	Latency 50 80% 50 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

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

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,691x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,437x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	612x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,144x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	864x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	340x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	763x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	323x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	159x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $684

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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