Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 72.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	15.9% 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	261% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.9% Very good	Memory 84.4 1-Core 93.2 2-Core 181 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 332 8-Core 529 53% 431 Pts	64-Core 538 33% 538 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960M 73,363 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Asus(1043 1090) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3136 Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	15.9% Very poor	Lighting 19.1 Reflection 16.8 Parallax 19.3 16% 18.4 fps	MRender 23.5 Gravity 21.8 Splatting 16.8 16% 20.7 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 15.9% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 367,854 User benchmarks, average bench 276% 421GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1310 1169 830 829 828 828 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	261% Outstanding	Read 1,972 Write 1,587 Mixed 1,374 SusWrite 966 330% 1,475 MB/s	4K Read 61.4 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 79.5 264% 90.5 MB/s	DQ Read 1,022 DQ Write 837 DQ Mixed 961 711% 940 MB/s
Poor: 178% ↑ This bench: 261% Great: 355%
Hitachi HTS541010A7E630 1TB 20,023 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 379GB free Firmware: SE0OA4H0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 83 87 85 87 88 87 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	50.1% Above average	Read 88.2 Write 83.5 Mixed 18.8 SusWrite 86.1 50% 69.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.5 110% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 60%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 1TB 18,390 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 858GB free Firmware: 0304 SusWrite @10s intervals: 128 127 127 127 129 129 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	66.8% Good	Read 104 Write 134 Mixed 92 SusWrite 128 85% 115 MB/s	4K Read 1.9 4K Write 3 4K Mixed 0.7 212% 1.87 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A1K43BB0-CPB 0112 78.C2GF6.AU20B 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	67.3% Good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 19 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 19.2 55% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 72.7 55% 72.7 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 67%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 9%

Tree trunk

Desktop 56%

Gunboat

Workstation 9%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	140x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	84x
GTX 960MNvidiaBench 16%, 73,363 samples	52x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1x

SSD
MZNLF128HCHP-00004 128GBSamsungBench 43%, 7,448 samples	38x
SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $69Bench 205%, 12,601 samples	21x
SD8SNAT128G1002 128GBSandiskBench 56%, 12,768 samples	7x

RAM
M471A1K43BB0-CPB M471A1G43DB0-CPB 16GBSamsungBench 65%, 1,104 samples	32x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB Hynix HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 16GBSamsungBench 65%, 2,218 samples	30x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 1x8GBSamsungBench 35%, 32,056 samples	26x

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