Performance Results


Gaming 100% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	116% 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	178% 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.

Very high background CPU (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 112 2-Core 227 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 434 58% 436 Pts	64-Core 439 27% 439 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 0426) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 399.24 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 156 Parallax 148 128% 154 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 145 Splatting 113 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZVPV128HDGM-00000 128GB 2,105 User benchmarks, average bench 180% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7300Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 396 385 378 368 368 361 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	178% Outstanding	Read 1578 Write 504 Mixed 529 SusWrite 376 163% 747 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 54.8 209% 76.6 MB/s	DQ Read 1,089 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 324 319% 535 MB/s
Poor: 119% ↑ This bench: 178% Great: 214%
Mushkin MKNSSDCR120GB-MX 120GB 213 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 55GB free Firmware: 506ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 149 140 137 138 138 138 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	Read 422 Write 160 Mixed 202 SusWrite 140 51% 231 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 39 153% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 191 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 122 105% 155 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 80%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 835GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 176 177 176 178 178 178 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 175 Mixed 93.7 SusWrite 177 115% 157 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 213% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$55 215,644 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	MC Read 34.5 MC Write 38 MC Mixed 28.5 96% 33.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 29.5 SC Mixed 22.5 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 107%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 67%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	128x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x

Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $531

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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