Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	73.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20220119
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 06 '22 at 11:00
Run Duration	237 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 92.4 1-Core 121 2-Core 220 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 469 8-Core 712 73% 591 Pts	64-Core 708 44% 708 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Dell(1028 3301) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 511.79 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	73.8% Very good	Lighting 90.5 Reflection 141 Parallax 91.8 74% 108 fps	MRender 91.7 Gravity 89.7 Splatting 89.7 74% 90.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SE800 1TB 231 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 709GB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 349 353 354 362 358 368 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	66.6% Good	Read 282 Write 337 Mixed 308 SusWrite 357 73% 321 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 37 4K Mixed 27.1 88% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 149 108% 138 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 89%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1TB free (System drive) Firmware: MX4OAC70 SusWrite @10s intervals: 112 98 95 139 124 109 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	76.2% Very good	Read 153 Write 122 Mixed 35.8 SusWrite 113 77% 106 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.7 132% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 108%
SDHC Card 4GB 2,629 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 4GB free, PID null SusWrite @10s intervals: 11 11 11 11 11 11 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	10.8% Very poor	Read 21.5 Write 7.2 Mixed 6.7 SusWrite 11.3 14% 11.7 MB/s	4K Read 7.7 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.5 83% 3.1 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 10.8% Great: 11%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GB 8,965 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	MC Read 35.6 MC Write 35.3 MC Mixed 24.5 91% 31.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 33.1 SC Mixed 25.4 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 85%

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

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,854x
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,388x
Core i5-8400Intel $131Bench 82%, 312,220 samples	771x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,297x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,039x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	663x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	844x
SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 238%, 21,542 samples	163x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	153x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 78%, 8,965 samples	552x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 9,471 samples	548x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,858 samples	491x

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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $633

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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