Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.2% 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	184% 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 91.7 1-Core 118 2-Core 236 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 788 77% 629 Pts	64-Core 970 60% 970 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 431.60 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 120 Parallax 99.8 91% 111 fps	MRender 99.9 Gravity 104 Splatting 107 85% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$92 154,949 User benchmarks, average bench 235% 150GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 512 308 309 304 304 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	184% Outstanding	Read 1470 Write 1,314 Mixed 1,081 SusWrite 340 235% 1051 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 58.5 194% 68.4 MB/s	DQ Read 978 DQ Write 1017 DQ Mixed 1009 756% 1,001 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 184% Great: 280%
WD Blue 1TB (2015)-$40 52,322 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 710GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 137 136 137 139 138 139 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Read 147 Write 151 Mixed 102 SusWrite 138 99% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 195% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 87%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 411GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 116 115 117 117 118 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Read 130 Write 106 Mixed 98.5 SusWrite 116 84% 113 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.8 170% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D240FSE.16FBD 1x16GB 5,153 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 1 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	45% Average	MC Read 16.2 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 12.8 42% 14.9 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 13.6 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 64.7 62% 64.7 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 45% Great: 47%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 110%

UFO

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 100%

UFO

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	535x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	489x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	404x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	841x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	314x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	306x

Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $926

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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