Dell XPS 8930

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	99.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	187% 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.

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System	Dell XPS 8930 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0DF42J
Memory	4.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170925
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 04 '17 at 05:56
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$193 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Memory 90.1 1-Core 112 2-Core 231 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 775 74% 613 Pts	64-Core 1,083 67% 1,083 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.66 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.6% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 137 Parallax 127 105% 131 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 124 Splatting 99.6 89% 110 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$37 33,719 User benchmarks, average bench 145% 411GB free (System drive) Firmware: AADA4101 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	187% Outstanding	Read 2,444 Write 437 Mixed 834 267% 1,238 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 37.5 151% 60.3 MB/s	DQ Read 440 DQ Write 320 DQ Mixed 108 154% 289 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 187% Great: 216%
Seagate ST8000DM0004-1ZC11G 8TB 186 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 7.5TB free Firmware: DN01 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 67 67 4587823 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 196575 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 136725988900866 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1 (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 63 63 622460965 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 23 (C2) HDA temperature 37 40 111669149733 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 19 19 4587823 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -14100377632768 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3500443 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1087380
Poor: 36% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 100 26334480 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 14 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 8301 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (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 65 589037603 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 118 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 81604378659 (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 -108563888340989 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2933590 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17597377	96.5% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 153 Mixed 164 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.17 84% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown M378A1K43CB2-CTD 2x8GB 4,758 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.3% Very good	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 22.7 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 19.6 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 87%

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Gaming 32%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 30%

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System: Dell XPS 8930

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,990x
Core i7-9700Intel $250Bench 92%, 79,875 samples	1,523x
Core i7-8700KIntel $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	326x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	926x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	697x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	645x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	564x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshiba $37Bench 145%, 33,719 samples	264x
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc601Bench 138%, 2,219 samples	159x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 78%, 8,965 samples	473x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 9,471 samples	468x
HMA81GU6JJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 81%, 4,647 samples	361x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $292

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16