Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


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 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.1% 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	55.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191127
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 24 '20 at 19:07
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	6%

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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
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X-$210 159,077 User benchmarks, average bench 76% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 78.5 1-Core 129 2-Core 249 84% 152 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 953 86% 725 Pts	64-Core 1,321 82% 1,321 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super)-$240 428,800 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Gigabyte(1458 4013) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.38 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Lighting 95.1 Reflection 87.5 Parallax 83 78% 88.5 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 79.7 Splatting 75.7 73% 92.2 fps
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk PLUS 240GB 86,316 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: UF4304RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 261 99 130 138 112 124 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	55.1% Above average	Read 453 Write 388 Mixed 156 SusWrite 144 63% 285 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 41.3 4K Mixed 16.9 78% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 119 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 35.4 48% 86.7 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 56%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$34 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 790GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 22 22 20 19 22 21 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	6.86% Terrible	Read 3 Write 28.8 Mixed 6.2 SusWrite 20.9 11% 14.7 MB/s	4K Read 0 4K Write 0.3 4K Mixed 0.1 17% 0.13 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 6.86% Great: 113%
Generic Flash Disk 2GB 6,669 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 1GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 2.9 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.3 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	3.07% Terrible	Read 10 Write 3.5 Mixed 2.5 SusWrite 3.2 5% 4.8 MB/s	4K Read 3.9 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 14% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.07% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.7% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 24.6 MC Mixed 24.3 73% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.3 SC Write 28 SC Mixed 24.9 71% 24.7 GB/s	Latency 83.3 48% 83.3 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 110%

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

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Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $84Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,916x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $157Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	602x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $275Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	457x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	404x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	257x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	175x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	357x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	319x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $63Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	290x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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