Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	10.5% 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	241% 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 (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8259U 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 73% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.3 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 118 2-Core 213 82% 141 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 636 64% 518 Pts	64-Core 610 38% 610 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 8,316 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Intel(8086 2074) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 24.20.100.6287 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	10.5% Very poor	Lighting 12 Reflection 10.6 Parallax 11.6 10% 11.4 fps	MRender 13.2 Gravity 11.4 Splatting 17.3 12% 14 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 10.5% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2018)-$37 23,087 User benchmarks, average bench 233% 432GB free (System drive) Firmware: 101020WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1100 847 852 850 851 850 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	241% Outstanding	Read 1,781 Write 1,434 Mixed 1,469 SusWrite 892 312% 1,394 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 63.6 214% 78 MB/s	DQ Read 1,030 DQ Write 1,152 DQ Mixed 1,072 812% 1,085 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 241% Great: 284%
Kingston DT 100 G2 16GB 1,132 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 11GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 4.4 3.4 5 6.5 6.2 6 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	4.01% Terrible	Read 14.8 Write 5.3 Mixed 0.5 SusWrite 5.2 7% 6.45 MB/s	4K Read 3.1 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 12% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 4.01% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance SODIM DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB 5,229 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	MC Read 44.8 MC Write 50.8 MC Mixed 27.7 117% 41.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 39.8 SC Mixed 21.6 76% 26.5 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 89%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 15%

Surfboard

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 14%

Tree trunk

GPU
Iris Plus Graphics 655IntelBench 9%, 8,316 samples	1,601x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	7x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	6x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	75x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 235%, 154,949 samples	48x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance SODIM DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 75%, 5,229 samples	61x
HyperX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 78%, 5,327 samples	54x
F4 DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 75%, 4,823 samples	35x

Value: 112% - Outstanding

Total price: $43

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