MSI B450 Tomahawk

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (17th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 83 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 65.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	105% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	84.5% 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 (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Micro-Star MS-7C02
Motherboard	MSI B450 Tomahawk (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	5760 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191107
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '22 at 22:42
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	46%

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PC Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF-$97 52,721 User benchmarks, average bench 72% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	65.6% Good	Memory 75 1-Core 94.4 2-Core 166 65% 112 Pts	4-Core 303 8-Core 513 50% 408 Pts	64-Core 604 37% 604 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070S (Super)-$210 663,603 User benchmarks, average bench 115% Nvidia(10DE 139E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 497.09 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 118 Parallax 25.9 104% 90.7 fps	MRender 177 Gravity 124 Splatting 109 108% 137 fps
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 123%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sabrent Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$30 11,181 User benchmarks, average bench 152% 113GB free (System drive) Firmware: RKT343.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 256 136 219 286 310 301 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Read 776 Write 823 Mixed 389 SusWrite 251 125% 560 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 69.4 4K Mixed 31.1 110% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 35.4 DQ Write 140 DQ Mixed 41.6 45% 72.3 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 223%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2018)-$50 695,066 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 213 210 204 209 212 217 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 53% Great: 106%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$56 346,786 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	MC Read 35.1 MC Write 26.4 MC Mixed 30.9 88% 30.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 19.6 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 90.4 44% 90.4 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 81.8% 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 70%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 64%

Destroyer

Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk - $130

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,751x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,088x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	857x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	561x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	475x
RTX 2070Nvidia $200Bench 104%, 478,117 samples	338x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	435x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	301x
660p NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBIntel $74Bench 191%, 163,917 samples	233x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	658x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	426x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	246x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $732

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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