Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.2% 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	163% 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.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190613
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 03 '21 at 17:10
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	SGP-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G-$104 181,631 User benchmarks, average bench 60% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	Memory 66.1 1-Core 109 2-Core 220 72% 132 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 437 59% 440 Pts	64-Core 425 26% 425 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega 8 (Ryzen iGPU) 85,536 User benchmarks, average bench 10% AMD(1002 15DD) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 21.5.2 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	11.2% Very poor	Lighting 14.2 Reflection 14 Parallax 21.8 12% 16.7 fps	MRender 10.5 Gravity 15.1 Splatting 12.6 10% 12.7 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 11.2% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$53 74,184 User benchmarks, average bench 242% 219GB free (System drive) Firmware: R0906I Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 829 345 395 221 556 310 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	163% Outstanding	Read 2116 Write 1,235 Mixed 531 SusWrite 442 238% 1,081 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 44.2 4K Mixed 35.6 115% 36.8 MB/s	DQ Read 619 DQ Write 90.7 DQ Mixed 165 169% 292 MB/s
Poor: 147% ↑ This bench: 163% Great: 311%
WDC WDS500G2B0B-00YS70 500GB 43,498 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 268GB free Firmware: 4010 SusWrite @10s intervals: 195 83 31 83 47 46 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	47.2% Average	Read 487 Write 321 Mixed 249 SusWrite 81.1 63% 284 MB/s	4K Read 11.6 4K Write 35.3 4K Mixed 6.2 44% 17.7 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 69.9 DQ Mixed 117 114% 191 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 114%
Plextor M5S 128GB-$75 5,727 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 51GB free Firmware: 1.05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 190 202 164 208 187 178 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	64.8% Good	Read 487 Write 210 Mixed 230 SusWrite 188 62% 279 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 26 4K Mixed 22.7 86% 25.6 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 58.6 DQ Mixed 128 106% 159 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 84%
WDC WD40 EZRZ-75GXCB0 4TB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 3TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 34 33 32 33 34 30 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	21.2% Poor	Read 38.3 Write 33.8 Mixed 31.6 SusWrite 32.6 46% 34.1 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1.1 133% 1.6 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 21.2% Great: 64%
WDC WD40 EZRZ-75GXCB0 4TB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 3TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile)	13.6% Very poor	Read 36.8 Write 34.3 Mixed 29.1 SusWrite 0.1 32% 25.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 126% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 13.6% Great: 64%
WDC WD40 EZRZ-75GXCB0 4TB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1.5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 4.9 4.6 4.2 4.2 4.4 3.8 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile)	14.8% Very poor	Read 36.6 Write 28.2 Mixed 32.8 SusWrite 4.3 32% 25.5 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1 130% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 64%
WDC WD60 EZAZ-00ZGHB0 6TB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	25.7% Poor	Read 33.6 Write 37.5 Mixed 25.9 SusWrite 0.1 31% 24.3 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 6.7 4K Mixed 0.6 252% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 25.7% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB 13,671 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76% Very good	MC Read 28.6 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 25.9 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 28.6 SC Mixed 21.8 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 111 36% 111 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 103%

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $84Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,937x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $140Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	833x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $120Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	612x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $269Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	493x
RTX 3060Nvidia $226Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	468x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	409x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	259x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	177x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $69Bench 275%, 495,311 samples	121x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	362x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	326x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $60Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	293x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $471

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $79
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $363