Alienware 15 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


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 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 88.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.3% 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	328% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Alienware 15 R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 15 R4
Memory	26.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 27 '19 at 16:21
Run Duration	270 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

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 i7-8750H 442,631 User benchmarks, average bench 70% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 2.2 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Memory 88.4 1-Core 126 2-Core 248 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 480 8-Core 646 71% 563 Pts	64-Core 778 48% 778 Pts
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070 (Mobile) 73,882 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Dell(1028 0876) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 123 Parallax 96.2 84% 107 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 98.2 Splatting 105 83% 100 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 82%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 EVO 1TB 34 User benchmarks, average bench 309% 823GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXP7 SusWrite @10s intervals: 2137 2124 2137 2160 2160 2114 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	328% Outstanding	Read 2,178 Write 2,138 Mixed 1,372 SusWrite 2,139 440% 1,957 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 63.2 205% 70.3 MB/s	DQ Read 1,123 DQ Write 978 DQ Mixed 1,040 782% 1,047 MB/s
Poor: 200% ↑ This bench: 328% Great: 378%
Samsung 860 Pro 1TB-$300 8,179 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 858GB free Firmware: RVM01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 895 486 483 483 482 482 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 85% Great: 132%
Samsung 970 PRO 1TB 90 User benchmarks, average bench 319% 931GB free Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 SusWrite @10s intervals: 1913 2129 1280 1163 1167 1167 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	286% Outstanding	Read 1957 Write 2,139 Mixed 1,599 SusWrite 1,470 403% 1,791 MB/s	4K Read 52.3 4K Write 97 4K Mixed 68.2 218% 72.5 MB/s	DQ Read 1,177 DQ Write 1,052 DQ Mixed 1,108 833% 1,112 MB/s
Poor: 239% ↑ This bench: 286% Great: 382%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 859B BLS16G4S26BFSD.16FD 32GB 32 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2400, 2400 MHz 16384, 16384 MB Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	82.7% Excellent	MC Read 30.3 MC Write 31.6 MC Mixed 25.7 83% 29.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 33.8 SC Mixed 26.4 75% 26.3 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 83%

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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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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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System: Alienware 15 R4

CPU
Core i7-8750HIntelBench 70%, 442,631 samples	190x
Core i9-8950HKIntelBench 74%, 14,729 samples	47x
Core i5-8300HIntelBench 65%, 167,898 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 47%, 177,775 samples	107x
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	92x
GTX 1080 (Mobile Max-Q)NvidiaBench 78%, 3,293 samples	39x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $50Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	41x
NVMe Samsung 256GBPm981Bench 192%, 5,350 samples	18x
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc401Bench 118%, 9,137 samples	16x

RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 27,567 samples	87x
HMA81GS6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 75%, 18,486 samples	19x
HMA82GS6CJR8N-VK 2x16GBUnknownBench 81%, 3,590 samples	15x

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Value: 28% - Poor

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