Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	105% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

Run History

3 months ago, 3 months ago, 3 months ago, 3 months ago, 2 months ago, 2 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 03:34
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-7700K-$300 178,240 User benchmarks, average bench 97% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	SC Int 137 SC Float 142 SC Mixed 137 111% 139 Pts	QC Int 439 QC Float 438 QC Mixed 424 98% 434 Pts	MC Int 624 MC Float 751 MC Mixed 723 104% 699 Pts
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 109%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$413 299,565 User benchmarks, average bench 98% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	105% Outstanding	Lighting 340 Reflection 305 Parallax 352 106% 332 fps	MRender 204 Gravity 287 Splatting 238 104% 243 fps
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2.5TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 237% 2.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	289% Outstanding	Read 715 Write 294 Mixed 260 312% 423 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 4.4 4K Mixed 0.38 139% 1.71 MB/s
Poor: 187% ↑ This bench: 289% Great: 307%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 32GB 141 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 23GB free, PID 162f Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	13.5% Very poor	Read 33 Write 10.6 Mixed 10.3 18% 18 MB/s	4K Read 5.01 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 1.48 127% 2.73 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 13.5% Great: 14%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$150 13,603 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	79.7% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 30.1 MC Mixed 25.6 80% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 30.8 SC Mixed 24.3 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 89%

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

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Gaming 95%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 93%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 71%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $300Bench 97%, 178,240 samples	5,970x
Core i5-7600KIntel $229Bench 92%, 59,704 samples	2,514x
Core i7-7700Intel $304Bench 83%, 44,648 samples	437x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $413Bench 98%, 299,565 samples	2,176x
GTX 1080Nvidia $478Bench 122%, 253,568 samples	1,700x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $289Bench 71%, 283,049 samples	1,397x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 106%, 288,084 samples	1,379x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $120Bench 115%, 223,355 samples	1,094x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 201%, 85,292 samples	957x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $160Bench 84%, 81,119 samples	1,730x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $196Bench 92%, 50,734 samples	707x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $185Bench 84%, 12,001 samples	341x

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Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,131

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $320	Nvidia GTX 1070 $413	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $100
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $150	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $289	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $120
Intel Core i7-7700K $300	AMD RX 480 $280	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $136

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $160	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $44
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $945	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $55	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $219	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12