Dell XPS 8920

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 78.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	124% 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	255% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (80%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Dell XPS 8920 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0VHXCD
Memory	23.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180223
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 28 '18 at 06:00
Run Duration	106 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	80%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Memory 81.1 1-Core 120 2-Core 225 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 683 66% 545 Pts	64-Core 696 43% 696 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2730 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.44 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 192 Parallax 168 140% 177 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 167 Splatting 118 109% 134 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 311GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	255% Outstanding	Read 2,686 Write 1,308 Mixed 1,438 398% 1,811 MB/s	4K Read 50.1 4K Write 94.3 4K Mixed 48.4 188% 64.3 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 95 107% 184 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 255% Great: 254%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 767GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 63 235125838 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 475 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2329779 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4811 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 229 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 52 706347049 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 618 (C2) HDA temperature 41 16 68719476777 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 235125838 (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 100 253 85173496451762 (F1) Unknown 100 253 705662040 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1170189518	92.9% Outstanding	Read 164 Write 160 Mixed 119 110% 148 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.31 106% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KM0VW4-MID 4x8GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	77.9% Very good	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 31 MC Mixed 25 80% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 18.9 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 78.6 51% 78.6 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 86%

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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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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 41%

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System: Dell XPS 8920

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	1,173x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	236x
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	252x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	201x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	194x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	244x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	40x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	33x

RAM
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 74%, 20,415 samples	271x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 7,552 samples	108x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G3H1 2x8GBMicronBench 74%, 1,002 samples	70x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $284

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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