Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.3% 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	165% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte XSeries
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '18 at 02:46
Run Duration	106 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	Memory 92.4 1-Core 127 2-Core 258 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 488 8-Core 647 72% 568 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 118 Parallax 107 96% 114 fps	MRender 97.6 Gravity 104 Splatting 93 80% 98.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 233GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 64 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 497354222	113% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 405 Mixed 427 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 41.3 176% 64.9 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 112 142% 254 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 128%
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 99,566 User benchmarks, average bench 177% 92GB free (System drive) Firmware: 401Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)	165% Outstanding	Read 809 Write 621 Mixed 661 155% 697 MB/s	4K Read 57.8 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 65.3 234% 80.7 MB/s	DQ Read 582 DQ Write 447 DQ Mixed 222 246% 417 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 165% Great: 236%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16G-D3-2400-MR 2x8GB 1,459 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	52.5% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 15.9 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 17.5 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 88%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 65%

Destroyer

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 54%

Yacht

SSD
EX900 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GBHP $33Bench 139%, 2,425 samples	11x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
S650 240GBHPBench 75%, 488 samples	7x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 993 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GBKingstonBench 57%, 3,744 samples	7x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	6x

Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $813

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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