Alienware 17 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 67.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	23.9% 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	151% 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 (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware 17 R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R4
Memory	24.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170314
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 14 '17 at 10:47
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 2.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	67.9% Good	Memory 84.7 1-Core 83.1 2-Core 161 65% 109 Pts	4-Core 277 8-Core 458 45% 367 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080 (Mobile) 17,197 User benchmarks, average bench 95% Dell(1028 07C2) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	23.9% Poor	Lighting 18.3 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 52.3 15% 49.3 fps	MRender 26.6 Gravity 40.3 Splatting 73.7 41% 46.9 fps
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 23.9% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 23,829 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 190GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4101 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	151% Outstanding	Read 1,465 Write 560 Mixed 423 177% 816 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 90.3 4K Mixed 40.7 152% 55 MB/s	DQ Read 266 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 136 134% 213 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 151% Great: 141%
Seagate ST4000LM024-2AN17V 4TB 7,786 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 836GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 155914080 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1122 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13241072 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 51196010169725 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 531 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 52 589103139 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 89 89 23868 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 38389 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 55834574883 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 82 64 155914080 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 48782238548214 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6556673043 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14617859485 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	61.7% Good	Read 116 Write 98.1 Mixed 50.8 65% 88.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 4.42 4K Mixed 0.47 170% 1.92 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 63%
Microsoft Virtual Disk 1TB 719GB free Firmware: 1.0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	52.1% Above average	Read 102 Write 79.2 Mixed 61.3 60% 80.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 3.96 4K Mixed 0.38 149% 1.72 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
ECB5162C 16ATF2G64HZ-2G1A1 2x16GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	72.7% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 23.1 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 22.6 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 72.2 55% 72.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 74%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 71%

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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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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