Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 77.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	77.9% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Sep 17 '19 at 03:54
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.3% Very good	Memory 93.8 1-Core 83.2 2-Core 164 69% 114 Pts	4-Core 329 8-Core 510 52% 420 Pts	64-Core 486 30% 486 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-56-$170 92,053 User benchmarks, average bench 78% Gigabyte(1458 230C) CLim: 1502 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.8.1 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.9% Very good	Lighting 90.1 Reflection 82.2 Parallax 152 73% 108 fps	MRender 83.8 Gravity 106 Splatting 120 87% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 85%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: KC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 82 73 65 95 74 64 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	55.4% Above average	Read 118 Write 103 Mixed 65.7 SusWrite 75.6 67% 90.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.9 148% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 88%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 124GB free Firmware: 1AC01113 SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 80 80 79 81 80 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	45.3% Average	Read 77.5 Write 78.5 Mixed 52.2 SusWrite 80.1 53% 72.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1 176% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 62%
Samsung M3 Portable 1TB 17,632 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 486GB free, PID 61b6 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 92 91 92 92 90 92 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	40.4% Average	Read 102 Write 73.3 Mixed 56.2 SusWrite 91.3 106% 80.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.9 94% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 40.4% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	53.4% Above average	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 16.7 MC Mixed 18.5 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 9.7 SC Mixed 13.9 34% 11.8 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 54%

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

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Typical SABERTOOTH 990FX Builds (Compare 422 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 36%

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Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	119x
FX-8150AMD $770Bench 59%, 22,181 samples	75x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	66x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	32x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	24x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	226x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	90x
32GBUnknownBench 53%, 5,781 samples	37x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $527

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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