Alienware 15 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 21% Surfboard	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (4th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 96 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 18.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is terrible.
Graphics	2.26% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	69.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware 15 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 15 R2
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160602
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '17 at 02:08
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	52%

PC Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 0.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	18.7% Very poor	Memory 26.5 1-Core 14.6 2-Core 31.7 16% 24.3 Pts	4-Core 61.3 8-Core 79.8 9% 70.6 Pts	64-Core 86.6 5% 86.6 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 18.7% Great: 69%

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 0708) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4590 Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	2.26% Terrible	Lighting 2.37 Reflection 38.1 Parallax 2.16 2% 14.2 fps	MRender 3.43 Gravity 2.03 Splatting 4.74 3% 3.4 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 2.26% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 13,766 User benchmarks, average bench 120% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXV77D0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	69.4% Good	Read 1,101 Write 113 Mixed 155 97% 456 MB/s	4K Read 15.7 4K Write 25.1 4K Mixed 13.3 54% 18 MB/s	DQ Read 50.5 DQ Write 39.4 DQ Mixed 23.1 23% 37.7 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 147%
Seagate ST1000LM044 HN-M101SAD 1TB 3,391 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 51GB free Firmware: 2BD10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 91 89 2737 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2954 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4790 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2546 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 5470477 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 44 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 303118 (C2) HDA temperature 47 47 227633725493 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 25 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 4614 (F1) Unknown 95 94 7085113 (F2) Unknown 98 94 3305592 (FE) Unknown 100 100 83	48.1% Average	Read 74.6 Write 93.3 Mixed 75.4 61% 81.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.02 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.04 21% 0.3 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 78%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GB 55,289 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	37.1% Below average	MC Read 12.9 MC Write 15 MC Mixed 15.6 42% 14.5 GB/s	SC Read 5 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 7.7 20% 7 GB/s	Latency 276 14% 276 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 37.1% Great: 76%

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System: Alienware 15 R2

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	629x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	123x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	120x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	483x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	172x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	94x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	211x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	34x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	24x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	234x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	113x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	76x

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Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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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