Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	125% 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	227% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171130
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 12 '18 at 18:17
Run Duration	322 Seconds
Run User	SVN-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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 way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 124 2-Core 240 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 685 67% 551 Pts	64-Core 688 43% 688 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 174 Reflection 197 Parallax 189 142% 187 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 167 Splatting 120 112% 138 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba Q300. 960GB 573 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 644GB free Firmware: SAFM12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3686 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1064 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 198 198 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 381 (C2) HDA temperature 68 52 206159675424	67.1% Good	Read 495 Write 260 Mixed 270 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 46.9 4K Mixed 4.61 75% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 326 DQ Write 163 DQ Mixed 23.7 76% 171 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 103%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 166GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	227% Outstanding	Read 2,044 Write 1,143 Mixed 1,161 319% 1,450 MB/s	4K Read 54 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 46.1 196% 68.3 MB/s	DQ Read 469 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 150 166% 286 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 227% Great: 236%
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB-$400 12,355 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 98GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13330 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2648 (E8) Unknown 100 100 73767568091 (E9) Unknown 97 0 97	105% Outstanding	Read 471 Write 421 Mixed 409 97% 433 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 35.2 153% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 123 146% 253 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 106%
Seagate ST2000LM015-2E8174 2TB 39,476 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2TB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 211957098 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 687 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12959638 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 19834158973706 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 137 (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 72 39 39125975068 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5945 (C2) HDA temperature 28 61 77309411356 (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 30185030156556 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2813773148 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2525151431 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	65.8% Good	Read 109 Write 119 Mixed 71.7 74% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 4.31 4K Mixed 0.55 179% 1.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 70%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 155 146 11233 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2360 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1731 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 565 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 211 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2148 (C2) HDA temperature 117 106 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	93.2% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 158 Mixed 148 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.78 4K Mixed 0.23 104% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 112%
USB DISK 2.0 8GB 937 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 6GB free, PID 9917 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	8.91% Terrible	Read 26.5 Write 5.98 Mixed 9.73 14% 14.1 MB/s	4K Read 7.23 4K Write 0.67 4K Mixed 0.41 63% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 8.91% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU16GX4M2C3000C15 4x8GB 3,586 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	MC Read 34 MC Write 38.4 MC Mixed 30.5 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 38.1 SC Mixed 25.2 77% 27.1 GB/s	Latency 60.3 66% 60.3 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 114%

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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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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 - $192

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	483x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	113x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	122x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	83x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	33x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	23x

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Total price: $960

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $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