Dell XPS 8700

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	112% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92.1% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Dell XPS 8700 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0KWVT8
Memory	30.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150709
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jul 26 '16 at 18:41
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1246 v3-$200 2,511 User benchmarks, average bench 73% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 116 2-Core 221 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 586 63% 503 Pts	64-Core 588 36% 588 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 150 Reflection 149 Parallax 150 122% 150 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 135 Splatting 113 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 447GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (A5) Unknown 100 100 65536 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 71 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 567 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 30 128850526237 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	86.3% Excellent	Read 496 Write 350 Mixed 343 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 35.3 4K Write 69.7 4K Mixed 18.1 114% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 12.8 80% 188 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 108%
Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 500GB 3,936 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT41B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 494 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 202 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 48 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9460383760	92.1% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 416 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 87.8 4K Mixed 26.4 147% 52.7 MB/s	DQ Read 44.8 DQ Write 93 DQ Mixed 26.5 32% 54.8 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 128%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8975 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 70 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 122 (0A) Spinup retry count 101 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 70 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 84 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 176094904351 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 120 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 212 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 63% Great: 109%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 170 2391 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 232 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 292 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 145 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 4295032839 (BE) vendor-specific 71 53 488046621 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 48 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 263 (C2) HDA temperature 114 96 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	106% Outstanding	Read 201 Write 170 Mixed 172 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.35 132% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16KTF1G64AZ-1G9P1 4x8GB 134 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	67% Good	MC Read 26 MC Write 24.5 MC Mixed 19.2 66% 23.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 23.7 59% 20.7 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 68%

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Gaming 13%

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Desktop 71%

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Workstation 12%

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System: Dell XPS 8700

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	2,689x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	1,736x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	206x

GPU
GTX 745 (OEM)Nvidia $60Bench 10%, 26,874 samples	572x
GeForce GT 720NvidiaBench 4%, 15,510 samples	360x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	322x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	167x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	165x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	156x

RAM
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	350x
HMT451U6BFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 56%, 2,366 samples	194x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	147x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $275

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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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