Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	9.88% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	89.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 (59%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 86.8 1-Core 114 2-Core 221 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 409 8-Core 429 56% 419 Pts	64-Core 420 26% 420 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R7 250 5,461 User benchmarks, average bench 9% MSI(1462 3012) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.11.3 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	9.88% Terrible	Lighting 12.7 Reflection 14.4 Parallax 18.3 10% 15.1 fps	MRender 8.3 Gravity 13.7 Splatting 10.7 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.88% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Longline SSD 240GB 350 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: T0929A0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 397 410 409 408 279 155 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Read 492 Write 396 Mixed 369 SusWrite 343 90% 400 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 25.5 136% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 129 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 38.4 75% 145 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 90%
WD WD5000AZDX-00SC2B0 500GB 560 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 466GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 142 143 145 143 141 136 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	76.2% Very good	Read 124 Write 126 Mixed 87.9 SusWrite 142 88% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.8 159% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 80%
SanDisk Ultra 32GB 7,719 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 3GB free, PID 5590 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 46 44 32 8.1 7.6 8.1 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	34.6% Below average	Read 144 Write 44.9 Mixed 28.5 SusWrite 24.3 63% 60.5 MB/s	4K Read 6.8 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 3.2 209% 4.07 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$31 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	73.8% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 22 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 23.1 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 88%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 21%

Surfboard

Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 17%

Surfboard

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	106x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	74x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	65x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 1x8GBKingstonBench 37%, 30,824 samples	116x
Aegis DDR4 2133 C15 1x8GBG.SKILLBench 37%, 8,300 samples	78x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GBHyperX $67Bench 69%, 46,617 samples	68x

Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $242

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