Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 92.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	99.4% 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	286% 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 (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Memory 93.5 1-Core 123 2-Core 245 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 489 8-Core 713 75% 601 Pts	64-Core 692 43% 692 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% EVGA(3842 5671) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	99.4% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 137 Parallax 127 106% 131 fps	MRender 95 Gravity 119 Splatting 102 86% 105 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 99.4% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 285GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 751 635 611 631 617 633 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	286% Outstanding	Read 2,478 Write 2,026 Mixed 1,475 SusWrite 646 369% 1,656 MB/s	4K Read 61.5 4K Write 152 4K Mixed 83.5 280% 98.9 MB/s	DQ Read 1,496 DQ Write 1,221 DQ Mixed 1,322 1,000% 1,346 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 286% Great: 340%
Seagate Expansion 4TB 22,017 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0708 SusWrite @10s intervals: 138 127 133 135 134 137 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	68.7% Good	Read 105 Write 126 Mixed 87.5 SusWrite 134 83% 113 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 3.9 4K Mixed 0.8 203% 1.9 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	75.3% Very good	MC Read 30.3 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 22.1 77% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 21 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 88%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 56%

Gunboat

Desktop 93%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 48%

Yacht

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	343x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	215x
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $38Bench 82%, 163,634 samples	142x

Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $602

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