Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3-CF

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 58% Gunboat	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.2%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	75.4% 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	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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

Run History

2 months ago, 2 months ago, 2 months ago.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-UD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3-CF (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	5760 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Dec 06 '18 at 23:05
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-6600K-$237 176,089 User benchmarks, average bench 85% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	80.2% Excellent	SC Int 106 SC Float 114 SC Mixed 110 88% 110 Pts	QC Int 287 QC Float 339 QC Mixed 420 79% 349 Pts	MC Int 370 MC Float 435 MC Mixed 392 60% 399 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 103%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$175 129,966 User benchmarks, average bench 70% Gigabyte(1458 22FC) CLim: 1405 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.12.1 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	Lighting 226 Reflection 172 Parallax 310 79% 236 fps	MRender 149 Gravity 216 Splatting 132 72% 166 fps
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 78%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$41 941,873 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 454GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 56 48 43 93 128 135 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	65% Good	Read 143 Write 140 Mixed 75.5 SusWrite 83.6 81% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.9 180% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 107%
WD WD3200AVVS-63L2B0 320GB 2,092 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 56GB free Firmware: 01.03A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 44 44 45 46 45 44 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	25.6% Poor	Read 44 Write 41.5 Mixed 31 SusWrite 44.7 30% 40.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.6 115% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$93 18,209 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	76.2% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 29.7 MC Mixed 25.3 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 27.8 SC Mixed 20.9 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 82%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical GA-Z170X-UD3-CF Builds (Compare 1,384 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 92%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 65%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $310Bench 88%, 270,887 samples	499x
Core i5-6600KIntel $237Bench 85%, 176,089 samples	452x
Core i7-7700KIntel $374Bench 96%, 225,039 samples	105x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $336Bench 97%, 455,284 samples	281x
GTX 1080Nvidia $528Bench 123%, 366,495 samples	141x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $230Bench 71%, 492,577 samples	134x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $78Bench 105%, 404,154 samples	164x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 290,212 samples	134x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 199%, 126,726 samples	42x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $115Bench 85%, 136,505 samples	89x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $95Bench 72%, 39,739 samples	67x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $186Bench 73%, 25,026 samples	45x

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Total price: $839

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $360	Nvidia GTX 1070 $336	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $78
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $149	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $230	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $90
Intel Core i5-8600K $259	Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti $808	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $43	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $115	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $43
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $750	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $48
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $41	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $126	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12