Asus PRIME Z370-A

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (35th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 65 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% 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	84.4% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z370-A (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180427
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 01 '19 at 21:48
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	Memory 75.1 1-Core 116 2-Core 221 76% 137 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 719 68% 566 Pts	64-Core 922 57% 922 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon-VII-$841 13,762 User benchmarks, average bench 101% AMD(1002 081E) Ram: 16GB, Driver: 19.5.2 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 96.8 Parallax 191 104% 139 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 142 Splatting 141 107% 128 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 106%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 305 311 298 311 275 239 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Read 423 Write 298 Mixed 244 SusWrite 290 70% 314 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 76.6 4K Mixed 27.6 125% 45.4 MB/s	DQ Read 294 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 213 178% 258 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 128%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 44 45 41 46 45 43 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 63% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4-3200C16-8GTRS F4-3200C16-8GTZR F4-3200C16-8GTZR F4-3200C16-8GTRS 32GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	70.6% Very good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 22.2 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 27.7 SC Mixed 23.4 64% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 90.1 44% 90.1 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 101%

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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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Gaming 110%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 100%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z370-A - $132

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	5,968x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	2,120x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	933x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	1,113x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,068x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	740x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	538x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	490x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	405x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	845x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	315x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	306x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $927

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16