Performance Results


Gaming 116% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% 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	254% 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 (85^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 127 2-Core 244 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 686 71% 572 Pts	64-Core 687 42% 687 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 205 Parallax 196 146% 193 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 180 Splatting 132 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 150GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	254% Outstanding	Read 2,688 Write 1,231 Mixed 1,398 389% 1,772 MB/s	4K Read 58.8 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 45.3 223% 82.6 MB/s	DQ Read 58.1 DQ Write 163 DQ Mixed 26 44% 82.5 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 254% Great: 236%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 658GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 171 1933 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 121 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 243 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 121 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 267 (C2) HDA temperature 105 90 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	86.7% Excellent	Read 153 Write 149 Mixed 152 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 2.91 4K Mixed 0.36 144% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A1K43BB0-CPB 8502 PSD48G213381S 16GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	72.5% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 20.6 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 21.7 63% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 61.6 65% 61.6 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 74%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 38%

Jet ski

SSD
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBIntel $119Bench 128%, 20,782 samples	7x
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBIntel $49Bench 116%, 58,154 samples	5x
S3 1T00 1TBSandiskBench 95%, 12,396 samples	2x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	11x
HMA82GS6MFR8N-TF 2x16GBHynixBench 69%, 5,073 samples	8x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 1x8GBSamsungBench 35%, 32,056 samples	5x

Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $405

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