Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 82.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.5% 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	218% 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.

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	Memory 90 1-Core 127 2-Core 245 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 401 8-Core 656 65% 528 Pts	64-Core 651 40% 651 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 8549) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1562 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 119 Parallax 106 93% 113 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 104 Splatting 91.4 79% 97.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB 34,988 User benchmarks, average bench 239% 502GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXA7301Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 347 678 807 803 478 800 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	218% Outstanding	Read 1,288 Write 1,020 Mixed 1,020 SusWrite 652 223% 995 MB/s	4K Read 59.2 4K Write 140 4K Mixed 80 266% 92.9 MB/s	DQ Read 1,083 DQ Write 871 DQ Mixed 972 729% 976 MB/s
Poor: 145% ↑ This bench: 218% Great: 329%
Teaml5li te3D480G 480GB 32 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 43GB free Firmware: Q041 SusWrite @10s intervals: 208 304 328 351 209 354 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Read 306 Write 382 Mixed 339 SusWrite 292 75% 330 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 37.2 4K Mixed 28 89% 29.1 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 114 92% 129 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (53^rd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.7% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 15.8 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 17.4 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 85%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 82%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 68%

Battle cruiser

SSD
SA2000M8250G 250GBKingstonBench 171%, 42,173 samples	12x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $98Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	9x
Force LE 240GBCorsair $85Bench 81%, 14,954 samples	6x

RAM
99U5403-159.A01LF KHX1600C10D3/8GX 16GBKingstonBench 58%, 26 samples	8x
KHX1866C10D3/8GX KHX1866C10D3/8GX KHX2133C11D3/8GX KHX2133C11D3/8GX 32GBKingstonBench 68%, 6 samples	6x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	5x

Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $748

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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