HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	84.2% 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	65.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 24 '19 at 20:22
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1650 0-$230 10,189 User benchmarks, average bench 73% CPU0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 82.8 1-Core 99.1 2-Core 200 73% 127 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 589 60% 484 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 111 Parallax 104 87% 107 fps	MRender 96.8 Gravity 99.4 Splatting 95.3 79% 97.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC120GC1DH16T2-T 120GB 215 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: 504ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 170 170 170 170 170 170 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	65.2% Good	Read 420 Write 172 Mixed 219 SusWrite 170 54% 245 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 54.1 4K Mixed 27.5 101% 35.4 MB/s	DQ Read 140 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 139 110% 150 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 79%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 931GB free Firmware: HP64 SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 122 124 123 124 123 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.9% Good	Read 118 Write 119 Mixed 63.6 SusWrite 122 77% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.9 165% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M393B2K70CM0-YF8 1x16GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 1 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1067 MHz clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing below potential (96^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	23.6% Poor	MC Read 8 MC Write 6.7 MC Mixed 6.9 21% 7.2 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 6.4 21% 7.2 GB/s	Latency 75.4 53% 75.4 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 23.6% Great: 23%

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

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Workstation 11%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,510x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	785x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	696x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	497x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	307x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	261x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	184x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	57x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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Total price: $373

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16