Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.9% 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	267% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8600K-$173 264,837 User benchmarks, average bench 91% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 93 1-Core 132 2-Core 265 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 776 80% 643 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 101%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 417.71 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 112 Parallax 96 87% 105 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 98.3 Splatting 98.8 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$100 154,949 User benchmarks, average bench 235% 168GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1209 354 307 308 307 309 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	267% Outstanding	Read 2,444 Write 1,460 Mixed 1,126 SusWrite 466 304% 1,374 MB/s	4K Read 59.1 4K Write 164 4K Mixed 81.4 280% 101 MB/s	DQ Read 962 DQ Write 1,461 DQ Mixed 991 812% 1,138 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 267% Great: 280%
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$46 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 175GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 393 482 422 287 286 285 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 489 Mixed 457 SusWrite 359 102% 454 MB/s	4K Read 50.2 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 66.9 228% 80.7 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 358 270% 362 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 128%
WD WD10JPLX-00MBPT0 1TB 11,708 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 842GB free Firmware: 01.01H01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 132 132 133 132 136 134 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	78.5% Very good	Read 140 Write 114 Mixed 26 SusWrite 133 75% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.6 124% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GB-$42 66,222 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	73.6% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 21.4 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 22.8 64% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 62 64% 62 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 88%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 55%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	82x
XPG SX8200 NVMe PCIe M.2 480GBAdata $60Bench 216%, 15,626 samples	81x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	65x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	81x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	58x
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX $75Bench 82%, 134,977 samples	56x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $554

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