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 (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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

5 months ago, 5 months ago, 5 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 (49^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-$235 181,471 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (37^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: 59% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 103%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$168 183,777 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: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 78%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$40 1,081,164 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: 108%
WD WD3200AVVS-63L2B0 320GB 2,951 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: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$73 20,103 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (79^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: 42% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 81%

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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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Gaming 92%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 64%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $290Bench 88%, 295,422 samples	568x
Core i5-6600KIntel $235Bench 84%, 181,471 samples	519x
Core i7-7700KIntel $359Bench 96%, 285,559 samples	116x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $314Bench 98%, 573,744 samples	315x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $208Bench 70%, 570,243 samples	161x
GTX 1080Nvidia $528Bench 123%, 449,288 samples	155x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $92Bench 106%, 421,994 samples	173x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $99Bench 112%, 318,788 samples	143x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 200%, 137,051 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $90Bench 86%, 166,861 samples	95x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $72Bench 73%, 39,417 samples	73x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $122Bench 73%, 27,349 samples	50x

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Value: 105% - Outstanding

Total price: $786

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $356	Nvidia GTX 1070 $314	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $92
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 $145	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $208	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $99
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $108	Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti $808	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $90	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $128
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $40	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $651	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $48
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $73	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $85	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12