Asus PRIME Z270-K

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.1% 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	93.8% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-K (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 07 '19 at 13:21
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	KWT-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 93.5 1-Core 130 2-Core 257 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 468 8-Core 478 63% 473 Pts	64-Core 500 31% 500 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% EVGA(3842 1071) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	85.1% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 99.5 Parallax 113 86% 106 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 94.8 Splatting 85.6 83% 104 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 1TB-$129 602,853 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 495GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 319 379 371 438 440 429 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 466 Mixed 438 SusWrite 396 101% 449 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 63.6 4K Mixed 42.4 137% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 157 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 157 118% 157 MB/s
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 133%
WD Black 500GB (2012)-$47 20,548 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 101GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 102 105 106 106 106 106 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	65.6% Good	Read 123 Write 123 Mixed 67 SusWrite 105 77% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.9 188% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 105%
Samsung Portable SSD T5 500GB 707 User benchmarks, average bench 209% 166GB free, PID 61f5 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 250 290 283 340 339 340 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	192% Outstanding	Read 327 Write 310 Mixed 312 SusWrite 307 428% 314 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 23.6 4K Mixed 22.6 1,644% 21.9 MB/s	DQ Read 20.6 DQ Write 23.5 DQ Mixed 22.4 1,638% 22.2 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 192% Great: 379%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	74.1% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 22.1 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 23 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 80%

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

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-K - $74

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	933x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	451x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	315x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	293x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	259x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	116x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	68x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	136x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	61x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $867

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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