Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	17.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	121% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	71.2% Very good	Memory 79.6 1-Core 87.2 2-Core 188 68% 118 Pts	4-Core 338 8-Core 539 54% 439 Pts	64-Core 539 33% 539 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980M 14,160 User benchmarks, average bench 41% Dell(1028 0708) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1771 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	17.5% Very poor	Lighting 10 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 41.7 8% 21.1 fps	MRender 38.9 Gravity 42.8 Splatting 46.9 36% 42.9 fps
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 17.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 7,011 User benchmarks, average bench 140% 320GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXV77D0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 563 559 561 557 560 565 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 764 Write 574 Mixed 398 SusWrite 561 128% 574 MB/s	4K Read 15.2 4K Write 92.4 4K Mixed 18.7 96% 42.1 MB/s	DQ Read 775 DQ Write 464 DQ Mixed 562 434% 600 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 172%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 800GB free Firmware: JB0OA3P0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 127 126 129 127 128 126 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	Read 144 Write 133 Mixed 28.5 SusWrite 127 78% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.6 127% 1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GB 6,021 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	62.5% Good	MC Read 23 MC Write 24.3 MC Mixed 20 64% 22.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 17.9 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 81.2 49% 81.2 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 76%

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

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	750x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	306x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	293x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	240x
CM871 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 45%, 3,215 samples	108x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	81x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	316x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	138x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	125x

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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