Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.2% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	203% 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 (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-8100-$110 81,392 User benchmarks, average bench 71% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 95.3 1-Core 116 2-Core 234 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 452 61% 454 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i3) 32,403 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7B47) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 26.20.100.6912 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.2% Terrible	Lighting 7.33 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 7.34 6% 8.71 fps	MRender 11 Gravity 6.47 Splatting 15.9 10% 11.1 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.2% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 100GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 499 228 225 223 220 217 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	203% Outstanding	Read 1,955 Write 1,334 Mixed 534 SusWrite 268 225% 1,023 MB/s	4K Read 50.3 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 54.2 222% 82.7 MB/s	DQ Read 1,122 DQ Write 757 DQ Mixed 598 539% 826 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 203% Great: 236%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 163GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 396 280 280 279 279 299 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	116% Outstanding	Read 471 Write 290 Mixed 370 SusWrite 302 80% 359 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 57.1 203% 72.3 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 237 212% 321 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 118%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2013)-$40 57,200 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 462GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 76 78 76 77 77 78 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	42.5% Average	Read 71 Write 73 Mixed 41.7 SusWrite 77 48% 65.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.6 113% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 51,435 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	MC Read 34.5 MC Write 34.8 MC Mixed 27.2 92% 32.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 36 SC Mixed 27.9 79% 27.8 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 108%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 94%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 95%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 86%

Aircraft carrier

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	80x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	65x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	111x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	79x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	46x

Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $672

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