Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.7% 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	180% 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.

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8600-$165 18,241 User benchmarks, average bench 88% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 134 2-Core 260 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 525 8-Core 793 82% 659 Pts	64-Core 766 47% 766 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 95%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 431.36 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 115 Parallax 96.6 90% 107 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 99.1 Splatting 101 81% 98.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 541 310 311 310 309 308 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	180% Outstanding	Read 1,156 Write 918 Mixed 445 SusWrite 348 159% 717 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 55.7 203% 75.2 MB/s	DQ Read 1,088 DQ Write 1,151 DQ Mixed 788 684% 1,009 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 180% Great: 236%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 839GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 153 155 150 156 155 153 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Read 132 Write 144 Mixed 20 SusWrite 154 81% 112 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.6 145% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE8G4D26AFEA.16FBD 2x8GB 2,945 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	87.9% Excellent	MC Read 32.6 MC Write 32.9 MC Mixed 27.6 89% 31 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 33.8 SC Mixed 26.5 76% 26.5 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 97%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 92%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 94%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 84%

Aircraft carrier

SSD
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	13x
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBWD $68Bench 204%, 97,624 samples	11x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 235%, 154,949 samples	11x

RAM
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX $75Bench 82%, 134,977 samples	15x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	14x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	10x

Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $768

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