Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 75.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	100% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (63%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '19 at 23:48
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	63%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Memory 91.8 1-Core 90.5 2-Core 168 70% 117 Pts	4-Core 321 8-Core 556 53% 439 Pts	64-Core 784 48% 784 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64LC (Liquid Cooled)-$1,700 4,268 User benchmarks, average bench 94% AMD(1002 0B36) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1750 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.1.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 100 Parallax 194 98% 138 fps	MRender 97.1 Gravity 136 Splatting 142 104% 125 fps
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 98%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$80 762,998 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 230GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 243 248 249 246 247 246 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	65.9% Good	Read 255 Write 229 Mixed 214 SusWrite 246 53% 236 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 74.3 4K Mixed 26.8 106% 40.7 MB/s	DQ Read 195 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 170 133% 183 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 129%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 667 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 1TB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 204 203 202 204 204 201 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	Read 212 Write 200 Mixed 57.6 SusWrite 203 122% 168 MB/s	4K Read 1.5 4K Write 3.1 4K Mixed 1.6 298% 2.07 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 221%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5273CH0-CK0 4x4GB 1,445 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96.3% Outstanding	MC Read 39.6 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 34.8 108% 37.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 13.5 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 92%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Workstation 47%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	579x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	451x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	232x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	91x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	51x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	123x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	54x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $262

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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