Alienware 17 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.07% 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	202% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware 17 R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R4
Memory	25.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170314
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 23:20
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	72% Very good	Memory 85.5 1-Core 92.6 2-Core 170 69% 116 Pts	4-Core 317 8-Core 452 48% 385 Pts	64-Core 526 32% 526 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Mobile Skylake) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Dell(1028 0776) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4549 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.07% Terrible	Lighting 6.37 Reflection 9.19 Parallax 6.28 5% 7.28 fps	MRender 8.29 Gravity 5.57 Splatting 13.1 8% 8.99 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.07% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	202% Outstanding	Read 1,568 Write 1,273 Mixed 1,582 329% 1,474 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 47.4 188% 70.4 MB/s	DQ Read 46.3 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 32.9 42% 71.7 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 202% Great: 353%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 109GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5064 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1400 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 68 43 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 130 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13596349700	83.5% Excellent	Read 492 Write 323 Mixed 342 85% 386 MB/s	4K Read 37.9 4K Write 54.4 4K Mixed 23.5 116% 38.6 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 85.1 99% 173 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 126%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 26GB free Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	263% Outstanding	Read 1,804 Write 1,818 Mixed 1,913 413% 1,845 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 58.5 211% 76.7 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 161 168% 277 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 263% Great: 353%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16ATF2G64HZ-2G3B1 2x16GB 800 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	79.1% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 31 MC Mixed 25.8 81% 28.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 31.1 SC Mixed 23.3 67% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 71.6 56% 71.6 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 82%

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

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Gaming 49%

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Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation 41%

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System: Alienware 17 R4

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	1,206x
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	755x
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	528x

GPU
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	966x
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	561x
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	436x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	191x
X400 M.2 2280 128GBSandiskBench 65%, 12,357 samples	153x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	131x

RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 27,567 samples	780x
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,851 samples	190x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,951 samples	176x

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Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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