Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD, HDD
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (33rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 67 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 76.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1900 x 1068 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190604
Uptime	3.8 Days
Run Date	Nov 30 '19 at 04:16
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
Intel Core i7-8700-$370 145,644 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	1-Core 110 2-Core 234 80% 172 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 669 70% 550 Pts	64-Core 881 59% 881 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 94%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i5 i7) 60,855 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Dell(1028 0858) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 26.20.100.6951 Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	6.24% Terrible	Lighting 22.6 Reflection 24.3 Parallax 24.7 6% 23.9 fps	MRender 25.1 Gravity 20.2 Splatting 30.6 6% 25.3 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.24% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$540 614,460 User benchmarks, average bench 105% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 431.60 Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 366 Reflection 0.3 Parallax 422 96% 263 fps	MRender 238 Gravity 403 Splatting 251 107% 297 fps
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 114%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Optane+1.8TBHDD 16 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: 17.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 142 58 81 37 179 172 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 69% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GB 2,393 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	65.5% Good	MC Read 26 MC Write 23.5 MC Mixed 19.6 66% 23 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 19.5 SC Mixed 21.9 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 67.3 59% 67.3 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 87%

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

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Workstation 76%

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $370Bench 88%, 145,644 samples	4,180x
Core i7-8700KIntel $355Bench 94%, 381,974 samples	2,739x
Core i5-8400Intel $200Bench 79%, 134,352 samples	1,556x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $540Bench 105%, 614,460 samples	2,288x
GTX 1070Nvidia $346Bench 79%, 705,740 samples	1,857x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $808Bench 131%, 436,654 samples	1,726x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $50Bench 127%, 20,410 samples	2,232x
SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 244%, 8,296 samples	398x
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc401Bench 124%, 3,129 samples	380x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 79%, 4,243 samples	1,567x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 81%, 3,670 samples	925x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 2,393 samples	914x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $960

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9600K $205	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-9400F $150	Nvidia GTX 1650S (Super) $160	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i7-9700K $375	Nvidia RTX 2060 $349	Samsung 850 Pro 512GB $249

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $80	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $63	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $613	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $14