Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 86.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	5.42% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	330% 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.

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Memory 95.4 1-Core 103 2-Core 207 79% 135 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 592 63% 505 Pts	64-Core 626 39% 626 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 730 164,888 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 3666) 2GB CLim: 901 MHz, MLim: 450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	5.42% Terrible	Lighting 6.7 Reflection 7.19 Parallax 7.94 6% 7.28 fps	MRender 4.76 Gravity 7.27 Splatting 7.13 5% 6.39 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.42% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 443GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1670 1698 1725 1734 1727 1707 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	330% Outstanding	Read 2,602 Write 1,746 Mixed 955 SusWrite 1,710 391% 1,753 MB/s	4K Read 52.1 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 71.2 246% 89 MB/s	DQ Read 1,148 DQ Write 877 DQ Mixed 945 725% 990 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 330% Great: 353%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 923GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 180 182 179 181 182 182 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 170 Mixed 119 SusWrite 181 119% 162 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1.2 229% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%
WD Elements 25A2 2TB 18,040 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 477GB free, PID 25a2 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 112 113 114 113 115 113 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	46.3% Average	Read 108 Write 106 Mixed 61.4 SusWrite 113 131% 97.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.8 94% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GB 11,950 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2666 MHz clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	118% Outstanding	MC Read 47.3 MC Write 44 MC Mixed 46.8 132% 46 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 23.2 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 55.9 72% 55.9 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 105%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 77%

Battleship

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	63x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	40x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	29x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	23x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	19x

Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $906

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