Dell XPS 8900

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 78.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	91.1% 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	73.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Dell XPS 8900 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0XJ8C4
Memory	12.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jun 07 '18 at 23:13
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	78.1% Very good	Memory 82.4 1-Core 108 2-Core 221 77% 137 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 649 64% 524 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	91.1% Outstanding	Lighting 113 Reflection 122 Parallax 93.8 92% 109 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 126 Splatting 101 90% 111 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDBNCE0010PNC-WRSN 1TB 1,183 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 462GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41110WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3395 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 154 (A5) Unknown 100 100 35258827 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1062 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 106 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 63 270584381469 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1232659349791 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3994 (EA) Unknown 100 100 9986 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8935 (F2) Unknown 253 253 24566 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.5% Very good	Read 489 Write 335 Mixed 373 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 43.7 4K Mixed 19.9 86% 29.4 MB/s	DQ Read 182 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 11.2 52% 118 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 107%
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 223GB free Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 111033494540747 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1737 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 137 (B7) Unknown 100 100 28 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 30 56 1073745494046 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 137 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 218740 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 63 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 218740 (F2) Unknown 100 100 384579 (F9) Unknown 100 100 26834	61.6% Good	Read 371 Write 186 Mixed 237 58% 265 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 53.9 4K Mixed 20.1 98% 34.2 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 12.6 45% 101 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 91%
Intel 520 Series 180GB-$132 14,258 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 168GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 83708913501369 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1035 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 240 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 240 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 180113 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 58 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 180113 (F2) Unknown 100 100 252469 (F9) Unknown 100 100 4845	64.3% Good	Read 495 Write 206 Mixed 264 70% 321 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 69.6 4K Mixed 12 97% 37 MB/s	DQ Read 26.8 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 12.8 35% 69.3 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 88%
Jetdrive Transcend 251GB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 103GB free Firmware: 0 Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	61% Good	Read 425 Write 329 Mixed 375 84% 376 MB/s	4K Read 14.9 4K Write 32.7 4K Mixed 17.5 62% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 66.9 DQ Mixed 58.6 56% 89 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 65%
WD Gold 12TB (2017)-$280 1,221 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 4TB free Firmware: 01.01H01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 92 (03) Spinup time 100 100 34359738368 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1726 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 91 91 11336 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 11336 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 188980133924 (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 200 200 0	99.6% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 166 Mixed 183 133% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 4.67 4K Mixed 0.49 172% 1.97 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 138%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$178 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 3.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 150 139 11458 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 491 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 59 29625 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 313 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 242 (C2) HDA temperature 112 92 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	97.7% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 162 Mixed 164 127% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 3.11 4K Mixed 0.2 120% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 98%
Asmt 2105 4TB 257 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Read 150 Write 159 Mixed 155 117% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 3.06 4K Mixed 0.24 117% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 99%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD2 4x8GB 443 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	80.4% Excellent	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 31.4 MC Mixed 26.8 83% 28.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 24.2 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 76.3 52% 76.3 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 101%

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System: Dell XPS 8900

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	2,112x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	464x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	171x

GPU
GTX 745 (OEM)Nvidia $60Bench 10%, 26,874 samples	507x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	346x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	237x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	71x
L8H-256V2G-11 M.2 2280 256GBLiteonBench 75%, 1,826 samples	66x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	522x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 4,057 samples	223x
M378A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 72%, 8,407 samples	158x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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