Asus TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (21st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 79 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 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	96.8% 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	39.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	28.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200221
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 09 '20 at 00:25
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-10900K-$449 107,269 User benchmarks, average bench 100% LGA1200, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 94.7 1-Core 129 2-Core 257 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 516 8-Core 1,000 90% 758 Pts	64-Core 1,761 109% 1,761 Pts
Poor: 89% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 106%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 432.00 Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	96.8% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 152 Parallax 132 115% 142 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 139 Splatting 0.09 61% 85.3 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Crucial BX500 240GB-$29 142,801 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 299 70 75 23 91 84 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	39.5% Below average	Read 509 Write 436 Mixed 416 SusWrite 107 82% 367 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 6.8 4K Mixed 0.4 47% 11.9 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 39.5% Great: 92%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: FP2A SusWrite @10s intervals: 199 201 206 205 204 204 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 63% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE16G4D32AEEA.K16FB BLE16G4D32AEEA.K16FB 32GB 2400, 2133 MHz 16384, 16384 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	101% Outstanding	MC Read 39.7 MC Write 39.5 MC Mixed 30.2 104% 36.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 40.7 SC Mixed 28.5 84% 29.4 GB/s	Latency 57.9 69% 57.9 ns

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

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Gaming 143%

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Desktop 101%

UFO

Workstation 142%

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Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS - $299

CPU
Core i7-10700KIntel $236Bench 97%, 198,859 samples	1,056x
Core i5-10600KIntel $144Bench 92%, 70,951 samples	508x
Core i9-10850KIntel $286Bench 99%, 84,873 samples	248x

GPU
RTX 3070Nvidia $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	496x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	385x
RTX 3060-TiNvidia $340Bench 128%, 442,467 samples	251x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	194x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	135x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	111x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBKingstonBench 86%, 239,203 samples	102x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	91x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	90x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,030

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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