Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 75.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	18.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	125% 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 above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Memory 87.8 1-Core 88.4 2-Core 164 68% 113 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 532 54% 438 Pts	64-Core 537 33% 537 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960M 73,363 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Legend(17AA 3802) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8476 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	18.6% Very poor	Lighting 23.7 Reflection 17.3 Parallax 20.2 19% 20.4 fps	MRender 24.7 Gravity 23.4 Splatting 17.1 17% 21.7 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme SAMSUNG MZVLV256 256GB 8,369 User benchmarks, average bench 122% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5L0QBXV7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 122 120 119 117 118 117 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	125% Outstanding	Read 1,146 Write 128 Mixed 225 SusWrite 119 87% 404 MB/s	4K Read 39.1 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 29 159% 61.9 MB/s	DQ Read 942 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 297 286% 474 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 147%
Seagate ST1000LM035-1RK172 1TB 452,134 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 411GB free Firmware: LVM1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 55 60 58 63 63 57 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	38.8% Below average	Read 75 Write 97.5 Mixed 51 SusWrite 59.4 52% 70.7 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 0.5 149% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 71,691 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.1% Good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 26.1 MC Mixed 20 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 6.2 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 18.6 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 69.8 57% 69.8 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 79%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 58%

Gunboat

Workstation 10%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	326x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	10x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	229x
GTX 960MNvidiaBench 16%, 73,363 samples	106x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples	1x

SSD
MZVLV256HCHP-000L2 256GBSamsungBench 127%, 2,256 samples	15x
MZVLV128HCGR-000L2 128GBSamsungBench 98%, 1,748 samples	12x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	8x

RAM
M471A5143DB0-CPB 2x4GBSamsungBench 67%, 6,545 samples	45x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	45x
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	30x

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16