Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12.3% 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	150% 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.

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8550U 184,356 User benchmarks, average bench 53% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2 GHz, turbo 2.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.2% Very good	Memory 83.4 1-Core 126 2-Core 94.9 67% 102 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 504 57% 448 Pts	64-Core 508 31% 508 Pts
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 550-$79 79,894 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Legend(17AA 5069) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 23.20.15034.5 Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	12.3% Very poor	Lighting 15 Reflection 21.1 Parallax 17.8 12% 18 fps	MRender 14 Gravity 13.5 Splatting 17.5 13% 15 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 12.3% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kxg5aznv256g TOSHIBA 256GB 2,616 User benchmarks, average bench 114% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5106AALA SusWrite @10s intervals: 414 380 326 305 307 307 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	150% Outstanding	Read 1,226 Write 647 Mixed 802 SusWrite 340 167% 754 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 58 193% 67.7 MB/s	DQ Read 619 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 246 237% 382 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 150% Great: 184%
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$80 762,998 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 364GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 382 256 251 250 244 227 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	Read 402 Write 414 Mixed 352 SusWrite 268 81% 359 MB/s	4K Read 14.5 4K Write 88.8 4K Mixed 22 97% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 330 DQ Mixed 347 263% 354 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 129%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A1K43CB1-CRC 2x8GB 62,266 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	MC Read 30 MC Write 29.7 MC Mixed 22.3 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 26.5 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 74.4 54% 74.4 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 78%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 11%

Tree trunk

Desktop 56%

Gunboat

Workstation 10%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i7-8550UIntelBench 53%, 184,356 samples	10x

GPU
UHD Graphics 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake R)IntelBench 5%, 420,154 samples	9x
RX 550AMD $79Bench 14%, 79,894 samples	1x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	2x
TOSHIBA 256GBThnsf5256gpukBench 99%, 2,882 samples	1x
LENSE20256GMSP34MEAT2TA 256GBBench 113%, 2,581 samples	1x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 79%, 9,568 samples	2x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 1x8GBHynixBench 37%, 144,145 samples	1x
M471A1G43DB0-CPB Hynix HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 16GBSamsungBench 69%, 438 samples	1x

Value: 27% - Poor

Total price: $80

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