Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 81.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85% 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	96.3% 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.

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	81.9% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 116 2-Core 231 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 591 59% 482 Pts	64-Core 625 39% 625 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1557 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 114 Parallax 102 89% 109 fps	MRender 93.8 Gravity 99 Splatting 90.9 77% 94.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Pcie SSD 512GB 20,736 User benchmarks, average bench 190% 337GB free (System drive) Firmware: E8FM11.5 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 380 311 327 353 339 340 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	96.3% Outstanding	Read 414 Write 461 Mixed 445 SusWrite 342 94% 416 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 85.5 4K Mixed 29.7 119% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 474 DQ Write 551 DQ Mixed 528 394% 518 MB/s
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 267%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 878GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 145 145 146 145 144 145 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 150 Mixed 87.7 SusWrite 145 101% 138 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 3 4K Mixed 1.3 258% 1.9 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 108%
WD Black 4TB (2016)-$174 9,888 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 3TB free Firmware: 81.H0A81 SusWrite @10s intervals: 178 174 172 174 179 168 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	73.8% Very good	Read 82 Write 170 Mixed 58 SusWrite 174 88% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 4.4 4K Mixed 0.4 155% 1.83 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 2,113 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	57.6% Above average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 18 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 17.2 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 58.4 68% 58.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 64%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	139x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	48x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $678

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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