Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 64.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	78.5% 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	124% 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.

High background CPU (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170210
Uptime	13.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 26 '17 at 09:21
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	64.4% Good	Memory 61.3 1-Core 101 2-Core 189 65% 117 Pts	4-Core 363 8-Core 567 57% 465 Pts	64-Core 593 37% 593 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Dell(1028 3301) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.66 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.5% Very good	Lighting 97 Reflection 106 Parallax 88.4 79% 97.3 fps	MRender 95.5 Gravity 91.2 Splatting 96.4 78% 94.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 173GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	124% Outstanding	Read 1,249 Write 558 Mixed 766 189% 858 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 85.3 4K Mixed 17.6 100% 41.4 MB/s	DQ Read 24.7 DQ Write 454 DQ Mixed 12.5 78% 164 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 157%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 838GB free Firmware: MS2OA810 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 69 (03) Spinup time 127 127 12896698548 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 270 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 108 108 37 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 484 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 263 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 275 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 275 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 227634446369 (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 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 482 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1559391177 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1135416303	92.6% Outstanding	Read 157 Write 166 Mixed 167 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.21 85% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 107%
Sony Hard Drive 1TB 2,286 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 286GB free, PID 05bf Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	32.2% Below average	Read 71.8 Write 76.9 Mixed 65.5 92% 71.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.34 67% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GB 1,618 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	35.6% Below average	MC Read 13.7 MC Write 13.8 MC Mixed 11.5 37% 13 GB/s	SC Read 6.4 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 7.2 23% 8.1 GB/s	Latency 124 32% 124 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 44%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 49%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,038x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	375x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	246x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	590x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	313x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	189x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	129x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	128x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	300x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	120x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	101x

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Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $312

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 $178	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