Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 93.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	12% 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	89.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8559U 2,379 User benchmarks, average bench 78% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Memory 91.1 1-Core 142 2-Core 285 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 727 78% 623 Pts	64-Core 720 44% 720 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 90%

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. 25.20.100.6519 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	12% Very poor	Lighting 13.1 Reflection 12.7 Parallax 13.8 11% 13.2 fps	MRender 16.3 Gravity 14 Splatting 21.4 14% 17.3 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 12% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$80 762,998 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 137GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 295 291 288 291 289 287 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Read 433 Write 304 Mixed 274 SusWrite 290 73% 325 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 32.8 129% 49.5 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 202 188% 293 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 129%
hp v245L 4GB 57 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 3GB free, PID ad07 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 6.8 7.7 7.3 7.7 7.6 7.7 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	5.74% Terrible	Read 21.3 Write 3.2 Mixed 4.2 SusWrite 7.4 10% 9.03 MB/s	4K Read 4.4 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 16% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.74% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905712-008.A00G 1x16GB 68 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	81.8% Excellent	MC Read 33.8 MC Write 44.1 MC Mixed 14.7 88% 30.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 13.2 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 65.7 61% 65.7 ns
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 84%

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 $92Bench 235%, 154,949 samples	48x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 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) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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