Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180713
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Oct 10 '18 at 03:42
Run Duration	104 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	34%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 138 2-Core 273 92% 167 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 537 68% 518 Pts	64-Core 522 32% 522 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6267) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2075 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 399.24 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Lighting 77.9 Reflection 78.4 Parallax 72.2 64% 76.1 fps	MRender 65.8 Gravity 67.6 Splatting 70.6 56% 68 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 60%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$45 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 162 163 167 165 169 171 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	66.6% Good	Read 64.5 Write 162 Mixed 31 SusWrite 166 76% 106 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 2 374% 2.87 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston ASU21D4U5S8MB-8 2x8GB 1,185 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	70% Good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 21.4 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 20.9 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 74%

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

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 49%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,040x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	375x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	246x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	591x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	313x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	130x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	128x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	300x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	121x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	101x

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Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $312

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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