Dell XPS 15 9560

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	10.7% 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	198% 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.

Very high background CPU (82%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	Dell XPS 15 9560 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 05FFDN
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170830
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 09 '17 at 23:16
Run Duration	86 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	82%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700HQ 473,208 User benchmarks, average bench 62% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.9% Very good	Memory 89.9 1-Core 112 2-Core 218 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 378 8-Core 546 58% 462 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050 (Mobile) 160,694 User benchmarks, average bench 23% Dell(1028 07BE) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8831 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	10.7% Very poor	Lighting 6.67 Reflection 24.4 Parallax 25.6 5% 18.9 fps	MRender 34.2 Gravity 23.4 Splatting 21.3 21% 26.3 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 10.7% Great: 25%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 19,561 User benchmarks, average bench 122% 377GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5KDA4103 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	198% Outstanding	Read 1,598 Write 984 Mixed 1,245 283% 1,276 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 60.5 177% 65 MB/s	DQ Read 420 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 186 194% 321 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 198% Great: 170%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 71,691 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.3% Good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 23.8 MC Mixed 20.4 65% 22.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 28 SC Mixed 23.3 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 79%

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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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System: Dell XPS 15 9560 - $1,300

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	3,707x
Core i5-7300HQIntelBench 57%, 170,871 samples	301x
Core i3-7100HIntelBench 56%, 141 samples	13x

GPU
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	2,581x
GTX 1050 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 23%, 160,694 samples	1,410x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	6x

SSD
THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshibaBench 122%, 19,561 samples	490x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshiba $46Bench 145%, 33,719 samples	476x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 196%, 44,403 samples	278x

RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 71,691 samples	1,169x
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GBHynixBench 73%, 6,356 samples	264x
8ATF1G64HZ-2G3H1 2x8GBMicronBench 67%, 2,004 samples	235x

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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 $177	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