Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	18.1% 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	27.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 0 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190306
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jul 08 '19 at 11:17
Run Duration	106 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600-$125 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 84.5 1-Core 120 2-Core 239 82% 148 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 665 70% 559 Pts	64-Core 686 42% 686 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-$143 230,793 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Device(7377 1621) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.86 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	18.1% Very poor	Lighting 24.8 Reflection 28.7 Parallax 23.2 20% 25.5 fps	MRender 35.4 Gravity 24.5 Splatting 0.04 14% 20 fps
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 18.1% Great: 73%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Jinghai 1TB 1TB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 561GB free (System drive) Firmware: R0822A0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 34 13 26 24 18 33 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	27.5% Poor	Read 474 Write 70.8 Mixed 17.5 SusWrite 24.7 31% 147 MB/s	4K Read 14.4 4K Write 4.6 4K Mixed 1.3 26% 6.77 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 27.5% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GB 74,390 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 42.3 MC Write 40.9 MC Mixed 34.9 112% 39.4 GB/s	SC Read 25.9 SC Write 40.3 SC Mixed 30.9 92% 32.4 GB/s	Latency 72.5 55% 72.5 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 103%

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

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $151Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $274Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	458x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	175x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	317x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $525

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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) $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