Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.02% 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	198% 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.

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.2% Very good	Memory 81.2 1-Core 94.9 2-Core 189 70% 122 Pts	4-Core 341 8-Core 522 54% 432 Pts	64-Core 527 33% 527 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Mobile Skylake) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? MSI(1462 116D) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4454 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.02% Terrible	Lighting 6.33 Reflection 41.9 Parallax 5.91 5% 18 fps	MRender 7.76 Gravity 5.73 Splatting 13.1 8% 8.88 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.02% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 864 906 858 789 588 558 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	198% Outstanding	Read 1,813 Write 923 Mixed 741 SusWrite 760 234% 1,059 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 48.3 177% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 762 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 378 324% 489 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 198% Great: 243%
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 99GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 327 130 129 129 129 129 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	96.4% Outstanding	Read 467 Write 395 Mixed 314 SusWrite 162 75% 335 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 90.5 4K Mixed 49.3 169% 59.4 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 302 237% 328 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 110%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 590GB free Firmware: JB0OA3J0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 114 117 114 118 120 120 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	68.8% Good	Read 123 Write 120 Mixed 21.7 SusWrite 117 69% 95.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.3 72% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A1G43EB1-CPB Kingston MSI21D4S15HAG/8G 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	69.8% Good	MC Read 25.5 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 22.3 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 20.4 58% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 78.3 51% 78.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 70%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 58%

Gunboat

Workstation 10%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	338x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	36x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	235x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	138x
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	1x

SSD
TOSHIBA 128GBThnsn5128gpu7Bench 139%, 3,510 samples	29x
THNSNJ128G8NY 128GBToshibaBench 73%, 7,789 samples	25x
PX-128M6G+ 128GBPlextorBench 80%, 311 samples	15x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	154x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 66%, 14,350 samples	52x
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 38%, 45,898 samples	17x

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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