Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 73.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	97.3% 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	277% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 2.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	Memory 94.2 1-Core 88.2 2-Core 165 70% 116 Pts	4-Core 291 8-Core 430 45% 360 Pts	64-Core 592 37% 592 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3367) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2584 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.3% Outstanding	Lighting 150 Reflection 54.8 Parallax 130 122% 112 fps	MRender 67.9 Gravity 47.3 Splatting 62 48% 59.1 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 365GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 2093 635 618 623 621 620 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	277% Outstanding	Read 2,544 Write 2,239 Mixed 1,441 SusWrite 868 396% 1,773 MB/s	4K Read 61 4K Write 156 4K Mixed 83.8 282% 100 MB/s	DQ Read 808 DQ Write 722 DQ Mixed 745 564% 758 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 277% Great: 340%
OCZ Trion 150 480GB-$300 13,412 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 429GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 469 258 244 282 282 282 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 487 Mixed 395 SusWrite 303 95% 422 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 93.4 4K Mixed 40.2 145% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 198 189% 295 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 101%
WD My Passport 259B 1TB 570 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 931GB free, PID 259b Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 99 109 109 110 110 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	45.3% Average	Read 110 Write 111 Mixed 63 SusWrite 103 130% 96.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.9 107% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3466 C16 4x4GB 281 User benchmarks, average bench 101% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3467 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	99.9% Outstanding	MC Read 37.8 MC Write 40.7 MC Mixed 31.3 105% 36.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 33.6 SC Mixed 25 74% 25.9 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 121%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 54%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBIntel $49Bench 116%, 58,154 samples	64x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $150Bench 336%, 200,600 samples	34x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	33x

RAM
M378A1K43CB2-CRC 2x8GBSamsungBench 74%, 24,860 samples	72x
MSI24D4U7S8MH-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 73%, 1,032 samples	55x
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 2x8GBSamsungBench 80%, 29,586 samples	50x

Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $352

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