Dell Precision 5520

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 73.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.17% 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	73.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

System	Dell Precision 5520 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 080VVT
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171112
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '18 at 09:37
Run Duration	91 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HQ 33,920 User benchmarks, average bench 60% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.6% Very good	Memory 80.2 1-Core 92.3 2-Core 185 69% 119 Pts	4-Core 362 8-Core 561 57% 462 Pts	64-Core 548 34% 548 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 70%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Mobile Skylake) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Dell(1028 07BF) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4664 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.17% Terrible	Lighting 6.6 Reflection 17 Parallax 6.38 5% 9.98 fps	MRender 7.29 Gravity 5.8 Splatting 13.4 8% 8.83 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.17% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 398GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 10 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7977 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 630 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (B3) Unknown 99 99 10 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 99 99 10 (B7) Unknown 99 99 10 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 48 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 18 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 38346022724	73.3% Very good	Read 484 Write 362 Mixed 398 92% 414 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 54 4K Mixed 19.4 102% 35.1 MB/s	DQ Read 33.7 DQ Write 50 DQ Mixed 91.4 55% 58.3 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 133%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16ATF2G64HZ-2G3E1 1x16GB 648 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 1 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.4% Below average	MC Read 13.9 MC Write 13.6 MC Mixed 11.1 37% 12.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.1 SC Write 12.8 SC Mixed 11.6 34% 11.8 GB/s	Latency 80.3 50% 80.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 38.4% Great: 46%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Workstation 11%

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System: Dell Precision 5520

CPU
Core i7-7820HQIntelBench 63%, 15,851 samples	1,560x
Core i7-6820HQIntelBench 60%, 33,920 samples	427x
Xeon E3-1505M v6IntelBench 70%, 4,124 samples	310x

GPU
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	1,217x
Quadro M1200NvidiaBench 15%, 4,250 samples	677x
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	330x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshiba $46Bench 145%, 33,719 samples	259x
PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 217%, 80,540 samples	127x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 196%, 44,403 samples	103x

RAM
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GBHynixBench 73%, 6,356 samples	349x
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 1x16GBHynixBench 40%, 22,543 samples	260x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 71,691 samples	171x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $46

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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