Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
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	169% 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.

Very high background CPU (71%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160301
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 16 '18 at 21:42
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	71%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	76.3% Very good	Memory 103 1-Core 77.4 2-Core 157 70% 112 Pts	4-Core 280 8-Core 328 40% 304 Pts	64-Core 338 21% 338 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% PowerColor(148C 2387) ≥ 4GB; rx vega 64 CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 89.4 Parallax 166 95% 124 fps	MRender 86.9 Gravity 119 Splatting 127 93% 111 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$92 154,949 User benchmarks, average bench 235% 199GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1095 258 259 258 266 248 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	169% Outstanding	Read 1,552 Write 1,235 Mixed 747 SusWrite 397 218% 983 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 85.5 4K Mixed 51.5 166% 57.8 MB/s	DQ Read 888 DQ Write 489 DQ Mixed 780 556% 719 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 169% Great: 280%
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 5GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable		Read 242 Write 126 Mixed 183 41% 184 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 9.3 4K Mixed 6.7 42% 11.7 MB/s	DQ Read 49.6 DQ Write 39.9 DQ Mixed 47.2 35% 45.6 MB/s
Poor: 54% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 202 206 207 206 206 207 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 189 Write 160 Mixed 77 SusWrite 206 115% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.7 138% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 11,954 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 22.6 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 9.7 SC Mixed 16.2 34% 11.8 GB/s	Latency 9.06 442% 9.06 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 107%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

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